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Advocacy group Frequency Forward and journalist Nina Burleigh have accused the Federal Communications Commission of concealing Chairman Brendan Carr's use of Signal on a phone he uses to conduct government business, escalating a public-records battle over the agency's ties to the Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk.
In a filing entered yesterday in US District Court for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs charged that the FCC acted in bad faith on multiple fronts—a finding that, if credited by the court, would represent a significant legal setback for the agency.
The Bad-Faith Allegations The filing lays out two distinct lines of misconduct.
First, the plaintiffs allege the FCC unilaterally redefined the search criteria used to fulfill their Freedom of Information Act request without notifying either the plaintiffs or the court—a procedural move they characterize as deliberate obfuscation.
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