The FCC’s most recent budget request said that promoting DEI was the agency’s second highest strategic goal.
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) November 18, 2024
Starting next year, the FCC will end its promotion of DEI. pic.twitter.com/we7ViUXczA
Brendan Carr, designated by President-elect Donald J. Trump to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has announced plans to terminate the agency’s focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “We must dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for everyday Americans,” Carr stated on Elon Musk’s X platform.
Carr highlighted that the FCC’s recent budget proposal identified promoting DEI as the agency’s second-highest strategic priority. He committed to removing DEI promotion from the FCC’s agenda starting next year, indicating a shift in the communications regulatory body’s policy direction.
Announcing Carr’s promotion to the FCC chairmanship, President-elect Trump said, “Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled America’s Freedoms, and held back our Economy.”
Before the November 5 election, The National Pulse reported on Carr’s criticism of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook for censoring accurate information about the Biden-Harris government’s failures. So-called fact-checkers censored content highlighting a Harris-led, $42 billion initiative to expand rural Internal access, failing to get even a single household online. “Zuckerberg promised Congress that it had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Carr observed.