President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that Netflix will “pay the consequences” if it does not fire Susan Rice, who has served on the company’s board since 2018. Trump’s comments came after Rice — a former ambassador to the United Nations who held diplomatic and advisory roles in the Obama … Read more
Donald Trump has threatened to have “consequences” for Netflix if he doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice. Rice served in both the Obama and Biden administrations and recently appeared on Preet Bharara’s podcast, where she said that corporations that “kneel over Trump” will be “caught in more than the pants off. Right-wing influencer and conspiracy … Read more
When Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, walked into the Senate Administration Building on Tuesday, he got a curveball. What began as a standard antitrust hearing related to the Warner Bros. merger quickly degenerated into a performative Republican attack on the streaming service’s spread of “woke” ideology. At the same time, an arguably far more … Read more
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was dropped amid a culture war in Congress on Tuesday as he testified before a Senate subcommittee about the company’s attempt to buy a large chunk of Warner Bros. Discovery. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee highlighted a number of traditional concerns about mergers on both sides of the … Read more