Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Illustration: Mark Harris/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Mark Harris/The GuardianTrump administrationBrendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. Former members who spoke to the Guardian also allege that teenage girls and young women were sexually exploited at Midtown, where they were regularly pressured and coerced into “dating” and having sex with multiple men who were also Midtown members – sometimes decades older than them. In at least one case, a former member said she believes that what happened to her could be described as sex trafficking.People who knew Carr during his years in Midtown say they do not believe he participated in inappropriate behavior.
- ▪Illustration: Mark Harris/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Mark Harris/The GuardianTrump administrationBrendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’Carr was a member of the group in
- ▪Former members who spoke to the Guardian also allege that teenage girls and young women were sexually exploited at Midtown, where they were regularly pressured and coerced into “dating” and having sex with multiple men who were also Midtown
- ▪In at least one case, a former member said she believes that what happened to her could be described as sex trafficking.People who knew Carr during his years in Midtown say they do not believe he participated in inappropriate behavior.
The Guardian — US files mainly under news. We currently carry 989 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Guardian — US |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/22/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-midtown-aa-group |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:00:54 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-22T10:13:50.749Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22T10:13:50.749Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | jk9JnGJJSG59 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Illustration: Mark Harris/The GuardianView image in fullscreen Illustration: Mark Harris/The GuardianTrump administrationBrendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conductStephanie KirchgaessnerTue 22 Sep 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Tue 22 Sep 2026 06.02 EDTShare@font-face{font-family:Guardian Headline Full;src:url(https://assets.guim.co.uk/static/frontend/fonts/guardian-headline/noalts-not-hinted/GHGuardianHeadline-Light.woff2) format("woff2"),url(https://assets.guim.co.uk/static/frontend/fonts/guardian-headline/noalts-not-hinted/GHGuardianHeadline-Light.woff)…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Guardian — US.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from The Guardian — US
