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.
Variety has reached out to Paramount for comment. Shortly after this story was published, the description for the Paramount Pictures account on the social network had changed back to: “The official X account for Paramount Pictures.”
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 Paramount Global, a deal that closed Aug. 7, the president publicly praised David Ellison, saying “he’ll do a great job” as CEO of the merged Skydance Media-Paramount.
From Variety US