Senate Democrats Demand 'Rigorous' FCC Probe Into Foreign Funding Behind Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

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"This constellation of foreign investment from China and from Gulf states, with complex and sometimes competing relationships with the United States, demands rigorous, not perfunctory, review," wrote ...

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