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How the FCC is Trying to Control the News You See and Hear

An agency started to prevent censorship has started suppressing news

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Sharon McMahon
Mar 18, 2026
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On August 18, 1933 — seven months after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany — Nazi Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels stood before a crowd of journalists and radio officials in Berlin and gave a speech he called “Radio as the Eighth Great Power.”

He was not being modest. Within months of Hitler taking office, the Nazi …

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