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  "path": "/2026/05/07/fccs-gomez-calls-for-review-of-paramounts-dodgy-merger-financing/",
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    "paramount",
    "warner bros. discovery",
    "brendan carr",
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  "textContent": "Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic Commissioner (because Republicans refuse to seat the second one) is calling for a rigorous review of Paramount and the Ellison family’s planned $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers. As Paramount recently revealed, 49.5 percent of the deal’s funding comes from Middle East and Chinese government-linked sources; just the sort […]",
  "title": "FCC’s Gomez Calls For Review Of Paramount’s Dodgy Merger Financing"
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