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The FCC has announced<\/a> it\u2019s waiving its rules<\/a> limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent<\/a> of the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During Brendan Carr\u2019s tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC<\/a>, tried to block stations<\/a> from airing interviews with Democrats, censored<\/a> late-night TV hosts, and tried to bully journalists<\/a>. However, it seems to have no qualms with repressive foreign governments owning a significant stake in a giant American media conglomerate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In its ruling, the FCC defended the decision, saying that, because the stocks being purchased did not have voting rights, they \u201cwill not be able to wield any influence, let alone control, over decisions involving the Licensees.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, many, including the advocacy group Free Press<\/a> and a number of Democrats, are not buying that. According to Variety<\/a><\/em>, Free Press noted its opposition, saying that \u201ccontrol over for-profit, commercial domestic news media by any government is an extraordinary situation that would surely strike most Americans as unseemly, precisely because of the utility of the news media as a propaganda tool for those governments.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anna Gomez, the FCC\u2019s lone Democratic commissioner, posted on X<\/a>, \u201cThe FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros. An investment this large in one of America\u2019s biggest media companies doesn\u2019t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and made.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The FCC has announced it\u2019s waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company. 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