Carr last week accused big tech firms including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft of taking steps to censor Americans.   11:19 Iowa pollster J Ann Selzer has announced she is moving on “to other ventures and opportunities” after more than two decades predicting results in the politically important Midwestern state.

Trump’s first FCC chair Ajit Pai, Carr’s former boss at the agency, lauded him as a “brilliant” adviser bound for success as agency head. Gigi Sohn, a progressive consumer advocate who served as an FCC official during the Obama years and was President Joe Biden’s one-time nominee to fill an open FCC seat, also congratulated Carr.