They tried to cancel his show. They may have ignited a war instead. The decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves has already cost Disney’s stock, with a reported 7% drop. Now, actor Mark Ruffalo is warning the financial bleeding will get much worse if the network caves to pressure from Nexstar Media, one of the most powerful and conservative-leaning station owners in the country. This isn’t just about a few jokes—it’s about corporate censorship and the silencing of dissent. Read our exclusive report on the explosive fallout and the high-stakes battle for the future of free speech on television. Link in the comments.

They tried to cancel his show. They may have ignited a war instead. The decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves has already cost Disney’s stock, with a reported 7% drop. Now, actor Mark Ruffalo is warning the financial bleeding will get much worse if the network caves to pressure from Nexstar Media, one of the most powerful and conservative-leaning station owners in the country. This isn’t just about a few jokes—it’s about corporate censorship and the silencing of dissent. Read our exclusive report on the explosive fallout and the high-stakes battle for the future of free speech on television. Link in the comments.

REVEALED: Mark Ruffalo Warns Disney’s Kimmel Censorship Could ‘Break America’

The first sign that something was wrong wasn’t an announcement, but a void. Where millions of Americans expected to see the familiar set of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, they were met with a network replacement.

The host was gone. The show was off the air, pulled “indefinitely” from the ABC schedule in a move that sent shockwaves from Hollywood to Wall Street. The cause was a monologue, a few minutes of biting satire aimed at the recent death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

But the consequence is now a national firestorm, a flashpoint in the escalating war over free speech, corporate power, and the very soul of American discourse.

At the heart of the backlash is not a grassroots movement, but a corporate behemoth. Nexstar Media, the largest owner of local television stations in the United States, reportedly “strongly objected” to Kimmel’s commentary. In an unprecedented exercise of affiliate power, the group vowed to pre-empt the show across its vast network of stations, effectively making it impossible for ABC to guarantee a national audience. Faced with a revolt from a critical partner, ABC’s parent company, Disney, made a swift and stunning decision: they pulled the plug.

The move immediately ignited a fierce defense from the entertainment industry, but no voice has been more potent or carried more internal weight than that of Mark Ruffalo. A cornerstone of Disney’s multi-billion-dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ruffalo took to social media not just to defend a fellow artist, but to issue a direct and ominous warning to his corporate employer.

Resharing a report that Disney’s stock had already tumbled 7% in the immediate aftermath, Ruffalo drew a line in the sand. “It’s going to go down a lot further if they cancel his show,” he posted. Then came the line that would define the conflict: “Disney does not want to be the ones that broke America.”