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Trump picks Big Tech critic who wrote ‘Project 2025’ chapter to lead FCC

Brendan Carr listens during a committee hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 24, 2020 [Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP]

United States President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brendan Carr, a Republican known for his criticism of Big Tech, to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Carr, who has served as an FCC commissioner since 2017, will end the “regulatory onslaught” that has held back job creators and innovators, and ensure that the communications agency delivers for rural areas, Trump said in a statement on Sunday.

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