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House Democrats Pressure TV Broadcasters To Deplatform Conservative Networks

Two House Democrats sent letters Monday to a dozen television broadcasters suggesting that they stop airing Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network, a move which a Republican commissioner on the FCC called a โ€œchilling transgressionโ€ aimed at deplatforming the conservative networks. โ€œAre you planning to continue carrying Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax on your platform both now and beyond the renewal date?โ€ California Reps. Anna G. Eshoo and Jerry McNerney wrote in a letter to the companies. โ€œIf so, why?โ€ they asked. ย The letters were sent to AT&T, Verizon, Roku, Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Charter, Dish, Cox, Altice, Alphabet, and Hulu. ย Eshoo and McNerney asked the companies what steps they took after the 2020 presidential election โ€œto monitor, respond to, and reduce the spread of disinformation, including encouragement or incitement of violence by channels your company disseminates to millions of Americans?โ€ ย The lawmakers blamed the three conservative outlets for spreading disinformation about voter fraud that led to the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6. ย They asserted that the cable and streaming companies โ€œhave done nothing in response to the misinformation aired by these outlets.โ€ Brendan Carr, a Trump-appointed commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, called the letter a โ€œchilling transgressionโ€ against the networks aimed at stifling editorial decisions and political speech. โ€œI call on my FCC colleagues to join me in publicly denouncing this attempt to stifle political speech and independent news judgment,โ€ Carr said in a statement on Twitter. ย โ€œThe Democrats are sending a message that is as clear as it is troubling โ€” these regulated entities will pay a price if the targeted newsrooms do not conform to Democratsโ€™ preferred political narratives.โ€ ย  ย Eshoo and McNerney sit on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, which will hold a hearing on Wednesday entitled โ€œFanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media.โ€ ย โ€œSome broadcastersโ€™ and cable networksโ€™ increasing reliance on conspiracy theories and misleading or patently false information raises questions about their devotion to journalistic integrity,โ€ Democrats on the committee wrote of the hearing. ย โ€œWe look forward to hearing from media experts about what is being done and what more can be done to address this growing problem moving forward.โ€ ย Momentum has been building since the election to deplatform various conservative media companies and conservative personalities. The most prominent example is Twitter and Facebookโ€™s banning of President Donald Trumpย following the Capitol riots. ย Three other Big Tech firms, Apple, Google and Amazon, all cut access after the riots to Parler, the social media platform popular with conservatives. ย The companies alleged that conservatives had used Parler to spread election-related disinformation and to organize the assault on the Capitol, though Facebook was mentioned far more often in charging documents

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