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
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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.
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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
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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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
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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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
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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.
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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
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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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
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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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
|
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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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
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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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
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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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
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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.
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-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
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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.
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-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
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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.
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-3 |
Paramount Skydance reaches children, teens, or young adults through entertainment brands, music, creators, sports, animation, recommendations, fandom, or household screens. Linked evidence
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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.
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-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
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Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
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-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
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-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
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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.
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-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
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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.
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-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
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Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
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
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
4Paramount Skydance carries environmental burden through data centers, network delivery, devices, advertising infrastructure, production, events, and hardware or e-waste where applicable.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
5Paramount Skydance reaches children, teens, or young adults through entertainment brands, music, creators, sports, animation, recommendations, fandom, or household screens.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
8Paramount Skydance turns media consumption into fandom, lifestyle, taste identity, sports allegiance, youth culture, creator attachment, or brand belonging beyond ordinary entertainment choice.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- Paramount privacy policyOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount press releasesOfficial self-description · 68%
- Paramount Skydance company siteGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- OpenLobby — PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION (FKA PARAMOUNT GLOBAL) lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%
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.
- OpenLobby — PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORPORATION (FKA PARAMOUNT GLOBAL) lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%
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