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Warner Bros / Paramount Merger – Risk Analysis – Larry Ellison Is Hiding Something Really Bad.

ByAlki David

Dec 22, 2025
WARNING AGAINST WARNER–PARAMOUNT MERGER   •   CSAM EXPOSURE ALLEGED IN COURT FILINGS   •   FIXED SPORTS BETTING NETWORKS IDENTIFIED   •   COMINGLED FUNDS & GOVERNANCE FAILURE   •   REGULATORS & INSURERS ON NOTICE   •   WARNING AGAINST WARNER–PARAMOUNT MERGER

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Larry Ellison backs Paramount Skydance hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
PUBLIC NOTICE — GOVERNANCE & SYSTEMIC RISK

Larry Ellison Issues $40.4B Personal Guarantee
to Force Hostile Warner Bros. Discovery Takeover

When billionaires put their personal balance sheet on the line, it signals urgency. This is not a routine media deal — it is a power move with regulatory consequences.

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Billionaires do not deploy personal guarantees at this scale unless time is short, underwriting resistance exists, or disclosure pressure is rising.

THE BID — STRIPPED OF SPIN

  • Offer: ~$30 per share for WBD
  • Structure: Cash + assumed debt + Ellison personal backstop
  • Nature: Hostile, accelerated, media-coordinated
  • Reality: Banks didn’t want the full exposure — Ellison absorbed it

WHY A PERSONAL GUARANTEE IS A RED FLAG

In large-cap M&A, clean deals are underwritten by syndicates. Personal guarantees appear when risk is asymmetric.

  1. Traditional underwriting resistance
  2. Expected regulatory or antitrust scrutiny
  3. Potential litigation or disclosure exposure
  4. Urgency driven by competitive or informational timing

WHAT WBD SHAREHOLDERS ARE BEING ASKED TO DECIDE

Reasons to Tender

  • Immediate liquidity
  • Debt overhang relief
  • Financing certainty
  • Premium in a volatile market

Reasons to Pause

  • Possible fire-sale pricing of irreplaceable IP
  • Integration risk with Paramount/Skydance
  • DOJ / FTC intervention
  • Pressure to sell before full sunlight

THIS IS NOT JUST A MEDIA DEAL

Ellison’s interests intersect across cloud infrastructure, AI training data, compute, and distribution control. Content libraries are no longer entertainment — they are strategic fuel.

THE QUESTION NO ONE IS ASKING (BUT REGULATORS WILL)

Why does this deal require a personal guarantee at all?

REGULATORY & GOVERNANCE FLASHPOINTS

  • Antitrust: Horizontal + vertical consolidation
  • National security: Data, cloud, AI training sets
  • Disclosure risk: Any adverse finding detonates guarantor exposure
  • Timing risk: Hostile acceleration implies anticipated events

SHOCKYA BOTTOM LINE

This is one of the most aggressive and time-compressed takeover plays in modern media history. Either it closes and redraws Hollywood — or it fails, and the reason why becomes the real story.

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Shockya Real Talk — Related Investigations

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Archival Shockya Coverage (Historical Context)

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Beyond legacy distribution and governance failures, court filings across multiple proceedings include sworn testimony from witnesses and victim statements alleging a deeper systemic culture of abuse, coercion, and human trafficking within segments of the media-legal-technology ecosystem. These filings assert that vulnerable individuals were exploited in environments characterized by extreme power imbalances, reputational control, and financial leverage, which allegedly suppressed reporting, limited accountability, and redirected scrutiny toward economically weaker targets. While such allegations are grave and contested, their documented presence in sworn court records constitutes a non-dismissible institutional risk that boards, insurers, and regulators are obligated to assess.

By Alki David

Alki David — Publisher, Media Architect, SIN Network Creator - live, direct-to-public communication, media infrastructure, accountability journalism, and independent distribution. Born in Lagos, Nigeria; educated in the United Kingdom and Switzerland; attended the Royal College of Art. Early internet broadcaster — participated in real-time public coverage during the 1997 Mars landing era using experimental online transmission from Beverly Hills. Founder of FilmOn, one of the earliest global internet television networks offering live and on-demand broadcasting outside legacy gatekeepers. Publisher of SHOCKYA — reporting since 2010 on systemic corruption inside the entertainment business and its expansion into law, finance, and regulation. Creator of the SIN Network (ShockYA Integrated Network), a federated media and civic-information infrastructure spanning investigative journalism, live TV, documentary, and court-record reporting. Lived and worked for over 40 years inside global media hubs including Malibu, Beverly Hills, London, Hong Kong and Gstaad. Early encounter with Julian Assange during the first Hologram USA operations proved a formative turning point — exposing the realities of lawfare, information suppression, and concentrated media power. Principal complainant and driving force behind what court filings describe as the largest consolidated media–legal accountability action on record, now before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Relocated to Antigua & Barbuda and entered sustained legal, civic, and informational confrontation over media power, safeguarding, and accountability at Commonwealth scale.