"FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced in February the agency was investigating whether #TheView violated the equal time rule, a regulation that requires broadcast programs to give equal airtime to opposing candidates if they permit a candidate for public office to appear on public airwaves. Since then, the ABC talk show hasn’t featured a single political candidate running in a competitive midterm race": https://www.semafor.com/article/07/05/2026/the-view-throttles-back-political-candidate-bookings-following-fcc-inquiry #InformationSuppression #intimidation #politics