While most focused on competition issues, Josh Hawley accused Netflix of promoting trans content to children
Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos faced tough questioning over whether the streamer is “overwhelmingly woke” or killing competition on Tuesday afternoon during a congressional hearing focused on its pending acquisition of the film and streaming assets of Warner Bros Discovery.
The hearing was conducted by the Senate subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy, and consumer rights. Bruce Campbell, chief revenue and strategy officer for Warner Bros Discovery, also testified in the packed Senate hearing room.
Both Sarandos and Campbell addressed concerns about how the merger would affect entertainment industry jobs, whether it would raise consumer prices for streaming services, whether it would result in less content for users and whether it would hurt the movie theater business.
“We’re going to operate the WarnerBros studio largely as it is today,” Sarandos said in response to a question from Democratic senator Adam Schiff about whether the merger would result in layoffs.
