On October 8, AEI hosted a web event to discuss the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) tactics under Chairman Brendan Carr.
AEI Senior Fellow Shane Tews kicked off the event with opening remarks.
Clay Calvert, a senior fellow at AEI, followed with a review of some of the actions taken and statements made by Chairman Carr and the FCC in matters such as the Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview, KCBS radio’s live reporting on the location of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, MSNBC’s alleged distortion of the news when reporting on Kilmar Ábrego García’s deportation, and Jimmy Kimmel’s weeklong suspension.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s Robert Corn-Revere discussed the public interest statutory mandate, the news distortion policy, and the First Amendment implications for the recent phenomenon of having private lawsuits paired with regulatory pressure.
Ashkhen Kazaryan, from The Future of Free Speech, discussed the concept of jawboning and how the Court defined when unlawful jawboning occurs in its NRA v. Vullo ruling.
Daniel Lyons, a senior fellow at AEI, went over the problems withstanding that the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri faced in making their case that the Biden administration unlawfully jawboned social media platforms.
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Ashkhen Kazaryan is a Senior Legal Fellow at The Future of Free Speech, where she leads initiatives to protect free expression and shape policies that uphold the First Amendment in the digital age.