US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Brendan Carr is asking Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft to provide answers regarding their censorship-related activities over the past four years.

Reclaim The Net has access to a letter addressed to the tech giants’ CEOs, where Carr mentions controversy-riddled NewsGuard – which is promoted by those running it as “a rating system for news websites.”

We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.

But the commissioner, citing information revealed in the Twitter Files, placed it within “the broader censorship cartel” and as one of the so-called fact-checkers and media monitors whose main business, in reality, is to suppress free speech in general, and certain voices in particular.