GOP Netflix gambit fizzles as Sarandos stays calm in Senate grilling

During a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal, MAGA Republicans grilled Ted Sarandos with partisan questions—including claims about woke content and employee political giving—but Sarandos gave measured responses and did not engage in a clash, framing Netflix as broadly popular across the political spectrum. The session underscored partisan culture-war theatrics rather than a substantive antitrust-style probe, with some lawmakers pushing dubious claims and Netflix defending consolidation as a strategic business move.