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ABC Says Trump’s FCC Probe Into ‘The View’ Over Equal-Time Rule Threatens to ‘Chill Critical Protected Speech’


Disney's ABC is firing back at the FCC, accusing the agency of engaging in actions that "threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech." The issue involves an FCC investigation into whether talk-show "The View" qualifies for an exemption to the agency's equal-time political rule but ABC argues that implications are broader than just one TV show.

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