The new head of the FCC, Brendan Carr, has rescinded the agency's diversity, equity and inclusiveness policies. This article, FCC Chairman Carr pulls plug on diversity initiatives, was first published at The Desk.

At a time when very few broadcast stations are owned by minorities, Carr said diversity, equity and inclusion efforts constituted “invidious forms of discrimination”

Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency’s agenda and usher through a host of regulations with major implications for the tech and media industries as soon as he has a Republican majority.

Brendan Carr announced around a dozen new staff appointments in one of his first acts as Chairman of the FCC. This article, New FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announces staff appointments, was first published at The Desk.