A Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday that the Republican-led agency is seeking to bully major U.S. broadcasters by reinstating a series of complaints.

The FCC notes 'a troubling jump' in complaints last year about noisy ads, despite regulations being in place since 2012.

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday that he aims to "re-empower" local TV stations, and he suggested that Congress consider tighter regulations on content moderation processes for social media giants.

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to advance a wireless spectrum auction to provide nearly $3.1 billion for U.S. telecom companies to remove equipment made by Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE from American wireless networks because of security concerns.

FCC chairman Brendan Carr wrote a letter to top tech CEOs, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, calling on them to stand up to European censorship.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said that the agency’s review of the proposed Skydance-Paramount Global merger is far from finished, as the two companies have said that they expect to complete the deal by the summer.

So Telnyx filed its response to the FCC’s $4.5MM NAL today and it is an incredibly interesting saga. For those of you just catching up, Telnyx is a carrier that apparently allowed an outfit known as “MarioCop” onto its network.

Commissioner Carr said the move will “better protect the public in some situations and reduce `alert fatigue’”

Dozens of pages of emails reveal how Brendan Carr, the FCC’s Republican chairman and close confidante of President Trump, was cleared by ethics officials to write a chapter in the 922-page manifesto when he was a commissioner.

New rules for Wireless Emergency Alerts and the proposed auctioning of 5G spectrum licenses were two actions highlighted by the FCC during its open meeting.