Paramount Skydance

public media and streaming company

Paramount Skydance

Industry Entertainment

A public media company behind Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, and related assets after the Skydance combination. Paramount Skydance produces real entertainment and news infrastructure, but conglomerate media power, youth brands, advertising, subscription churn, and attention capture keep it low.

Why this matters: Paramount+ and Pluto TV are direct competitors to Netflix, Disney+, Max, Peacock, YouTube, and Roku-style free streaming.

Letter grade F Malignant Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score -9* F - Malignant

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material12
Bonus+0
Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2
After Cap12
Penalties-21
G
Private Government badge

Paramount Skydance receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $1.8M on public policy issues.

Evidence: [12]

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Evaluation Overview

F - Malignant

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.

Strengths

  • Extraction2/10
  • Market Conduct2/5
  • Product Integrity2/5

Penalties

  • Policy Capture-5
  • Youth Capture-3
  • Subscription Capture-3
  • Identity Capture-3

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims12
  • Direct axis claims11
  • Coverage11/17

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
1 / 10

Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
1 / 10

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • context Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
  • context Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
  • context Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
2 / 10

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • context Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
  • context Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
  • context Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
1 / 7

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • context Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
  • context Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
  • context Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
1 / 7

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • context Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
  • context Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
  • context Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
1 / 7

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • context Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
  • context Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
  • context Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
2 / 5

Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
2 / 5

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
1 / 5

Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Linked evidence
  • context Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules. [2]
  • context Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities. [1]
  • context Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality. [3]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Ecological Harm
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Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
-1

Paramount Skydance carries environmental burden through data centers, network delivery, devices, advertising infrastructure, production, events, and hardware or e-waste where applicable.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance carries environmental burden through data centers, network delivery, devices, advertising infrastructure, production, events, and hardware or e-waste where applicable. [4]
Policy Capture
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Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
-5

OpenLobby records PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION (FKA PARAMOUNT GLOBAL) lobbying on communications and tax with about $1.8M in spending across 32 filings; the reviewed filings document…

Linked evidence
  • OpenLobby records PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION (FKA PARAMOUNT GLOBAL) lobbying on communications and tax with about $1.8M in spending across 32 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role. [11]
Youth Capture
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Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture, surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself penalized. Range: -5 to 0.
-3

Paramount Skydance reaches children, teens, or young adults through entertainment brands, music, creators, sports, animation, recommendations, fandom, or household screens.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance reaches children, teens, or young adults through entertainment brands, music, creators, sports, animation, recommendations, fandom, or household screens. [5]
Subscription Capture
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Manipulative recurring-payment, automatic-renewal, cancellation-friction, bundling, trial-conversion, or refund designs that profit from inertia or confusion. Range: -5 to 0.
-3

Paramount Skydance uses recurring subscriptions, bundles, free trials, cancellations, loyalty inertia, catalog exclusives, account libraries, or device/platform dependence that make exit harder than a clean one-time purchase.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance uses recurring subscriptions, bundles, free trials, cancellations, loyalty inertia, catalog exclusives, account libraries, or device/platform dependence that make exit harder than a clean one-time purchase. [6]
Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

Paramount Skydance publishes terms and privacy materials, but ordinary users cannot easily compare tracking, recommendation logic, advertising uses, cancellation effects, creator payouts, bundle pricing, and catalog volatility before subscribing or watching.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance publishes terms and privacy materials, but ordinary users cannot easily compare tracking, recommendation logic, advertising uses, cancellation effects, creator payouts, bundle pricing, and catalog volatility before subscribing or watching. [7]
Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-3

Paramount Skydance turns media consumption into fandom, lifestyle, taste identity, sports allegiance, youth culture, creator attachment, or brand belonging beyond ordinary entertainment choice.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance turns media consumption into fandom, lifestyle, taste identity, sports allegiance, youth culture, creator attachment, or brand belonging beyond ordinary entertainment choice. [8]
Surveillance Capture
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Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
-3

Paramount Skydance collects or processes viewing, listening, device, account, advertising, location, interaction, search, demographic, or preference data through streaming, apps, websites, connected TVs, or creator tools.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance collects or processes viewing, listening, device, account, advertising, location, interaction, search, demographic, or preference data through streaming, apps, websites, connected TVs, or creator tools. [9]
Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Paramount Skydance presents entertainment access as neutral choice while underplaying the institutional power of recommendations, catalogs, ad targeting, subscription design, creator bargaining, and attention capture.

Linked evidence
  • Paramount Skydance presents entertainment access as neutral choice while underplaying the institutional power of recommendations, catalogs, ad targeting, subscription design, creator bargaining, and attention capture. [10]

Bonus Credits

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Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 70/100

11 verified linked claims 11 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 11/17 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 13/20

11 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

11 direct claims across 17 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 6/10

11/17 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Paramount Skydance is controlled by shareholders, private owners, or platform managers rather than by viewers, listeners, artists, creators, subscribers, or affected communities.

Ownership Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Paramount Skydance provides entertainment, streaming, audio, video, discovery, creator, or personal-media services with real cultural value, while still shaping access through accounts, feeds, subscriptions, advertising, or platform rules.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3Paramount Skydance competes in streaming and attention markets where catalogs, recommendations, bundles, advertising, device placement, app stores, exclusives, and switching costs shape user choice beyond simple product quality.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4Paramount Skydance carries environmental burden through data centers, network delivery, devices, advertising infrastructure, production, events, and hardware or e-waste where applicable.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

5Paramount Skydance reaches children, teens, or young adults through entertainment brands, music, creators, sports, animation, recommendations, fandom, or household screens.

Youth Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6Paramount Skydance uses recurring subscriptions, bundles, free trials, cancellations, loyalty inertia, catalog exclusives, account libraries, or device/platform dependence that make exit harder than a clean one-time purchase.

Subscription Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7Paramount Skydance publishes terms and privacy materials, but ordinary users cannot easily compare tracking, recommendation logic, advertising uses, cancellation effects, creator payouts, bundle pricing, and catalog volatility before subscribing or watching.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

8Paramount Skydance turns media consumption into fandom, lifestyle, taste identity, sports allegiance, youth culture, creator attachment, or brand belonging beyond ordinary entertainment choice.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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9Paramount Skydance collects or processes viewing, listening, device, account, advertising, location, interaction, search, demographic, or preference data through streaming, apps, websites, connected TVs, or creator tools.

Surveillance Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

10Paramount Skydance presents entertainment access as neutral choice while underplaying the institutional power of recommendations, catalogs, ad targeting, subscription design, creator bargaining, and attention capture.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

11OpenLobby records PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION (FKA PARAMOUNT GLOBAL) lobbying on communications and tax with about $1.8M in spending across 32 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Policy Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

12Paramount Skydance receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $1.8M on public policy issues.

Private Government Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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