President-elect Trump picked Brendan Carr, a career telecommunications lawyer and regulator, to lead the Federal Communications Commission as the agency’s next chairman.Carr is the senior Republican on the five-member commission and has championed many of Trump’s causes.

US President-elect Donald Trump has named "big tech" critic Brendan Carr to lead the US communications regulator, after he takes office in January 2025. Carr has attacked what he sees as the censorship of conservative viewpoints by top social media firms other than X,

Brendan Carr, a critic of the Biden administration's telecom policies and Big Tech, is currently the top Republican on the FCC.