1. United States
2. Md.
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to demand an immediate conflict of interest review and data firewall requirements for Oracle Corporation's unprecedented access to federal government data and its role in the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Between February 11 and February 28, 2026, Oracle consolidated control over an alarming amount of American data infrastructure. On February 11, Oracle won a CMS contract to host Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA marketplace data for over 150 million Americans. The next day, the Air Force awarded Oracle an $88 million task order for Cloud One, covering Top Secret and Special Access Program workloads across the Department of Defense. On February 28, Oracle received U.S. government authorization to run generative AI on federal government data at the highest security clearance levels using Elon Musk's xAI Grok model. This creates a dangerous conflict of interest. Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder and chairman, is personally guaranteeing $44.6 billion of his son David's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery using Oracle shares as collateral. Those shares derive their value from federal contracts, meaning government payments support the stock financing a media empire that will control HBO, CNN, Warner Bros., CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon, all running on Oracle cloud infrastructure at $100 million annually. Oracle's data collection history is troubling. Between 2014 and 2024, Oracle acquired companies like BlueKai and Datalogix, creating what a federal lawsuit called "digital dossiers" on five billion consumers, resulting in a $115 million settlement. Additionally, $24 billion of the merger financing comes from Gulf sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar. When Oracle took over TikTok operations, the government required an oversight board, algorithm audits, and data isolation. No equivalent safeguards exist here despite comparable American audience reach and far more sensitive federal data access. I urge you to demand three actions before the March 20, 2026 shareholder vote: a formal conflict of interest review, data firewall requirements modeled on the TikTok standard, and treating Oracle as a related party rather than a neutral vendor in this transaction.