Mark Ruffalo lets his mask slip on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

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For months, Hollywood activists have insisted that their campaign to stop the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is about something noble and decidedly nonpartisan: protecting competition, preserving jobs, and saving American culture from corporate consolidation.

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