Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has threatened to pull licenses from TV networks that air "hoaxes and news distortions" in their coverage of the Trump administration's Iran war coverage. This comes after Carr suggested that the FCC would not renew licenses of broadcasters that had been running "fake news," referring to reports that five U.S. Air Force plans were damaged by an Iranian missile strike. The FCC does not regulate national TV networks or their news programming, but does not have jurisdiction over local broadcast stations. The rule of "news distortion" is outdated and Carr argues that changing course is in their business interests due to plummeting trust in legacy media. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took the bait by criticizing Carr's threats, calling them an example of an authoritarian move out of the authoritarian playbook.