Link: https://newrepublic.com/post/215580/fcc-middle-east-dictatorships-paramount-shares

The Federal Communications Commission has greenlit Paramount’s petition to allow foreign investors to own at least 49.5 percent of its equity—should the media behemoth successfully acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

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The framing of the article is a bit odd. Fox was owned by Australians and as far as I know, Newscorp, the news side of Fox, still is.

It's cuz the investors are the scary brown folks /s. Plus, I imagine the reporter on this story is also concerned about press freedoms in the those respective countries, how they plan on using their influence, etc. I know some folks have ditched EA because they don't trust the new investors either.

Rupert Murdock.