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Apr 5 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🚨#JOURNALISTS:

US billionaire John Malone has more money invested in British media assets (inc GB News) than Rupert Murdoch. His company Discovery is likely to buy @Channel4 & he's former Chair of the dangerous & influential Libertarian (Koch-funded) think tank, Cato Institute.
Discovery, AT&T & Warner Bros will create Warner Bros Discovery, pending a $43 BILLION merger. Discovery CEO David Zaslav will lead the new company, & John Malone will be on the Board.

"Take back control" - & hand it to foreign libertarian billionaires.

August 2017: "(John Malone's) Discovery has eyed numerous assets in the UK, including expressing interest to the government in buying @Channel4 when it was being considered for a £1billion privatisation."

theguardian.com/media/2017/aug…
So who is John Malone?
This is just another example of how the @Conservatives will sell off anything British to foreign billionaires - especially to the free-market fundamentalist libertarians who align with their warped ideology: @channel4 today, #NHS tomorrow.

This Govt is a catastrophe for Britain.
Some background on how the UK Government came to be taken over by a global cabal of antidemocratic right-libertarian kleptocratic billionaires intent on replacing Govt's that work in the interests of their people, with representatives of a global elite.

Malone is Discovery Chair & its largest shareholder, & a board member of the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank that espouses the privatization of US Social Security & the Postal Service.

@CNN is part of an $85 billion acquisition by Discovery.

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