FCC’s Carr Hopes Musk’s Twitter Takeover Will Result in ‘More Free Speech’

Brendan Carr, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, speaks at the CPAC convention in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 29, 2020. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

A top Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official said he’s optimistic that “more free speech” will result from a successful Elon Musk takeover of Twitter, a global social network with more than 400 million monthly users.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr told NTD’s Paul Greaney on April 25 that he hopes Musk will “follow through on [his] commitment to free speech” because “at the end of the day, we want more speech, not less.”