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A group of former officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking the agency to repeal its “ news distortion policy,” which is notes sitting Chair Brendan Carr has cited in threatening to crack down on mainstream media coverage that is critical of President Trump.

In a petition filed Thursday, the group criticized the policy as leaving a “vast scope and vague language” which it argued can “cast an omnipresent shadow over broadcasters’ freedom of expression while leaving the policy open to partisan weaponization.”

Carr has engaged in such weaponization, the group argued, noting he “reopened the news

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