I chaired the FCC. The 60 Minutes settlement shows Trump has weaponized the agency | Tom Wheeler

What was once an independent, policy-based agency is now using its leverage to further the Maga message

It is time to unfurl the Mission Accomplished" banner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Paramount Global, the parent of CBS Television, has agreed to pay $16m to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. Presumably, the FCC can now cease its slow-walking of the Paramount-Skydance Media merger.

Just two days after the president took office, the agency's new chair, Brendan Carr, inserted the FCC into the issues in the Trump lawsuit that alleged news distortion". As the New York Post headlined: Trump's FCC pick Brendan Carr says 60 Minutes' editing scandal could affect Paramount-Skydance merger review."

Tom Wheeler was the chair of the Federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017