California Attorney General Rob Bonta took a victory lap following a proposed settlement of up to $17 billion for claims brought by 51 attorneys general against Meta, suggesting that the parent of Instagram and Facebook realized that a trial was not going well for their side. As Bonta went…

UPDATED 8:03 AM: Iowa and Montana are going to the Supreme Court to put a halt on antitrust efforts to prevent the $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery. This case is about the legal limits on politicized antitrust enforcement by a small handful of states seeking to…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and coalition of 51 attorneys general unveiled a proposed settlement with giant Meta — parent of Facebook and Instagram — for up to $17 billion along with remedies designed to help protect teens from alleged mental health harms associated with social media use…

UPDATED: California Attorney General Rob Bonta told reporters that “we don’t have anything scheduled” with Paramount to negotiate a potential settlement of the antitrust challenge to the proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. At a press conference on Tuesday, Bonta continued to lash out…

David Ellison’s Paramount is publicly denying that it leaked details of upcoming talks with Rob Bonta’s office on its Warner Bros. Discovery deal after the California attorney general canceled a scheduled Monday meeting, accusing the company of “playing games.” "We share AG Bonta's concerns…

There will be no settlement talks meeting Monday between Paramount and a coalition of state attorneys general after all. “My office was scheduled to meet with Paramount on Monday, August 24th,” California AG Rob Bonta said late late Sunday. “I have pulled down this meeting.” Bonta…

EXCLUSIVE: A meeting Monday between Paramount brass and state attorneys general over sussing out settlement talks between the parties in David Ellison’s contested $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has turned into a “game of PR chicken,” an industry insider says. “Ellison and…

As part of the antitrust lawsuit to block Nexstar’s merger with Tegna, a federal judge earlier this year ordered that the two companies remain separate. It’s a very unusual situation, given that Nexstar already had closed its transaction, hoping to create a broadcast station giant with almost…

Paramount’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has evoked a range of emotion in Hollywood, mainly fear among creatives at the planned merger of two more major studios. But now that uncertainty is tinged with panic after CEO David Ellison threatened to relocate his Los Angeles-based company…

The results of a court hearing in Oakland on Wednesday might be a little to close for comfort for Paramount and David Ellison. Additionally, the findings of a report submitted to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors might prove very scary in terms of potential job losses and more if the $111 bi…

UPDATED with California Attorney General statement: Paramount finally is getting serious in its standoff with blue state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America over the antitrust action aimed at shattering David Ellison’s $111 billion deal to meld Warner Bros Discovery with the home of The…

In case you didn’t already know, Paramount CEO David Ellison really wants to make sure this afternoon that everybody is clear those pesky state attorneys general and their antitrust lawsuit are ruining a really good $111 billion thing — and now even Mexico agrees with him. “Paramount and WBD…