The new head of the FCC, Brendan Carr, has rescinded the agency's diversity, equity and inclusiveness policies. This article, FCC Chairman Carr pulls plug on diversity initiatives, was first published at The Desk.

As promised, President Donald Trump signed an order officially designating Brendan Carr as the new FCC Chairman.

At a time when very few broadcast stations are owned by minorities, Carr said diversity, equity and inclusion efforts constituted “invidious forms of discrimination”

Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency’s agenda and usher through a host of regulations with major implications for the tech and media industries as soon as he has a Republican majority.

New FCC chair Brendan Carr reversed a last-minute decision by the Biden administration-led regulator to reject bias complaints lodged by Donald Trump against three network TV news broadcasters, the agency said Wednesday.

Brendan Carr announced around a dozen new staff appointments in one of his first acts as Chairman of the FCC. This article, New FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announces staff appointments, was first published at The Desk.