{"id":2300,"date":"2026-02-10T01:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/fcc-accused-of-withholding-doge-information-in-bad-faith\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:16:22","slug":"fcc-accused-of-withholding-doge-information-in-bad-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/fcc-accused-of-withholding-doge-information-in-bad-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC accused of withholding DOGE information \u2018in bad faith\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of Cheems meme in front of the words \u201cDepartment of Governmental Efficiency\u201d.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/STKS486_DOGE_DEPARTMENT_2_E.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">One year and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/845063\/fcc-doge-foia-brendan-carr-senate-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly 2,000 pages of documents<\/a> later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency has withheld relevant documents \u00ab\u00a0in bad faith\u00a0\u00bb and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to draw out the information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u00ab\u00a0Thus far, the Defendant has sought to delay document production, and when pressed by this Court to act, Defendant has produced only sanitized email threads,\u00a0\u00bb Arthur Belendiuk, attorney for advocacy group Frequency Forward and journalist Nina Burleigh, who together filed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) re \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/875981\/fcc-doge-frequency-forward-brendan-carr-discovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency 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