Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has accused Comcast of “news distortion” over its networks’ coverage of Kilmar Armando Abrego, a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador due to what the government said was an “administrative error.”
“Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public,” Carr wrote in a reply to a post on X, which criticized the Comcast-owned MSNBC and Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN for not covering a White House press briefing about the deportation of immigrants. “Comcast knows that federal law requires its licensed operations to serve the public interest.”
As pointed out by Deadline, the FCC’s own website states that the agency’s authority over news distortion is “narrow” and it will only investigate if there’s “evidence showing that the broadcast news report was deliberately intended to mislead viewers or listeners.”
noti.group reached out to Comcast with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.
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