A group of Democratic US lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Becca Balint, have written to the Department of Justice demanding an "impartial" antitrust review of Fox Corporation's proposed $22 billion (£17bn) acquisition of streaming platform Roku. The lawmakers fear the deal will not receive proper scrutiny and warn it could let the Lachlan Murdoch-led company favour its own content over rivals across Roku's roughly 100 million households, reducing consumer choice and harming competitors.

In a letter dated 16 July to Stanley E. Woodward, associate attorney general in the DOJ's antitrust division, the politicians also raised concerns about alleged backroom dealmaking and lobbying influence, citing reports that Woodward has discouraged antitrust enforcers from taking cases to trial in favour of settlements. They argued this approach risks enabling further "influence-peddling" amid a wave of media consolidation, including Disney's Fubo-Hulu+Live TV tie-up and the Paramount-Skydance and Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery mergers, and called for assurances that the Fox-Roku review will be based solely on the facts and the law.