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all mentions of "independent" or "independence" had been removed from FCC.gov
That overstates the website change. FCC-hosted documents published afterward still used both “independent” and “independence.”
Full reasoning
This sentence is too sweeping. While reporting showed the FCC removed “independent” from its main mission statement after Brendan Carr’s December 17, 2025 testimony, it is not true that all mentions of “independent” or “independence” disappeared from the FCC’s domain.
FCC-hosted documents published after December 17, 2025 still used those words. For example:
- An FCC document released January 8, 2026 said an action had been initiated under the Commission’s “independent regulatory authority.”
- An FCC document released June 29, 2026 referred to the FCC as a “multi-member, multi-party, independent body” and discussed the “independence of federal agencies.”
So the article turns a narrower edit to a mission statement into a false blanket claim about the entire FCC.gov site.
2 sources
- Protecting Our Communications Networks by Promoting Transparency Regarding Foreign Adversary Control
Released January 8, 2026. The document says the action 'was initiated on the Commission’s independent regulatory authority'.
- Gomez on SCOTUS Decision on Independent Federal Commissions
Released June 29, 2026. The statement says Congress created the FCC as a 'multi-member, multi-party, independent body' and refers to the 'independence of federal agencies'.