1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I’m writing to ask that the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee review the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger before the shareholder vote on March 20th. This is a $111 billion deal that would put HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount+, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Nickelodeon under one company. That company is controlled by David Ellison, whose father Larry Ellison runs Oracle — the same company that serves as the cloud infrastructure for the merged entity, holds contracts processing Medicare and classified military data, and whose stock is being used as collateral to finance the deal. Oracle is listed in the merger filings as a neutral vendor. It is not neutral. On the same day the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, Oracle received authorization to run AI on federal government data at the highest security levels. No data firewall between Oracle’s federal, commercial, and media environments has been proposed or required by anyone. When Oracle took over TikTok, the government required an oversight board, algorithm audits, and data isolation. The combined Paramount–Warner Bros. will reach a comparable American audience with far more personal data, and no equivalent safeguards have even been discussed. I’m asking you to support a conflict-of-interest review before this deal closes and to ensure Oracle is treated as what it is — a related party, not an independent vendor.