Company: WBD
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437107-25-000031
Chunk: 46

Company: Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 46
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A, and many other international laws and regulations. These laws and regulations are continually evolving and many more U.S. state and federal laws and international laws may pass this year and over the next few years. See the discussion above in “Business – Regulatory Matters”. These evolving privacy, security, and data protection laws may require us to expend significant resources to implement additional data protection measures, and our actual or alleged failure to comply with such laws could result in legal claims, regulatory enforcement actions and significant fines and penalties.

Environmental, social and governance laws, and regulations may adversely impact our businesses.

U.S. regulators, international regulators, investors, consumers and other stakeholders are increasingly focused on environmental, social, and governance considerations. For example, domestic and international laws and regulations relating to environmental, social and governance matters, including environmental sustainability and climate change, human capital management, AI, and cybersecurity, are under consideration or have been adopted. Many such laws, including the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the greenhouse gas emission regulations that have already been adopted in the state of California and that have been proposed in other jurisdictions, include specific, quantitative disclosures regarding our global operations, both upstream and downstream. These increased disclosure obligations have required and may continue to require us to implement new practices and reporting processes, and have created and may continue to create additional compliance risk. They may also result in increased costs relating to tracking, reporting and compliance.

Additionally, if we are unable to live up to evolving stakeholder expectations and industry standards for environmental, social and governance issues, or if we are perceived by consumers, stockholders or employees to have not responded appropriately with respect to these issues, our reputation, and therefore our ability to sell our products and services, could be negatively impacted. If, as a result of their assessment of our position on environmental, social, and governance matters, certain investors are unsatisfied with our actions, they may reconsider their investment in the Company. Providers of debt and equity financing may also consider our position on these issues and the ratings of external firms (which we have limited ability to influence) in their decisions involving the Company, which could impact our cost of capital and adversely affect our business.

Foreign exchange rate fluctuations may adversely affect our operating results and financial conditions.

We have significant operations in a number of foreign jurisdictions and certain of our operations are conducted and certain of our debt obligations are denominated in foreign currencies. The value of these foreign currencies fluctuates relative to the U.S. dollar. As a result, we have exposure to foreign currency risk as we