The official account for Paramount Pictures on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, was seemingly compromised Tuesday — with someone rewriting the description in the account’s bio to read: “Proud arm of the fascist regime.”
The hack of Paramount Pictures’ X account comes after David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance launched a direct-to-shareholders hostile takeover effort for Warner Bros. Discovery , coming just days after Netflix and WBD announced an agreement under which the streamer would buy WB’s studios, HBO, HBO Max and games divisions.
President Donald Trump has been known to be friendly with David Ellison and his mega-wealthy father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. “They’re big supporters of mine,” Trump said in October. Prior to Skydance Media’s takeover of Paramoun

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