Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has ordered a probe into Disney’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies to assess whether they amount to discrimination, racial or otherwise.
“I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation into Disney and ABC,” Carr wrote in a March 27 letter addressed to Disney CEO Robert Iger. “In particular, I want to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.” The ABC media brand is owned by Disney.
“In recent years, Disney made DEI a key priority for the company’s businesses and embedded explicit race- and gender-based criteria across its operations,” said the letter, adding that public reports “paint a disturbing picture of Disney’s DEI practices.”…