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  "path": "/2026/05/04/paramount-reveals-company-will-be-49-5-owned-by-foreign-investors-if-warner-bros-merger-approved/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T12:23:36.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.techdirt.com",
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    "paramount",
    "warner bros. discovery",
    "brendan carr",
    "consolidation",
    "fcc",
    "foreign ownership",
    "larry ellison",
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  "textContent": "FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent much of the last five years on cable TV whining incessantly about foreign entanglement with U.S. companies. Even companies he doesn’t regulate. He was positively apoplectic about China’s ownership of TikTok, which you may recall they “fixed” by offloading the social media company to Trump’s billionaire friends (while curiously […]",
  "title": "Paramount Reveals Company Will Be 49.5% Owned By Foreign Investors If Warner Bros Merger Approved"
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