Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has opened an inquiry into Disney and ABC’s DEI programs, marking the second investigation of a major media company.
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Chairman Brendan Carr said Friday.
The investigation will “ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr wrote in a letter posted on X and addressed to Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger.
Though Carr noted that the company had recently softened some of its DEI efforts, including changing a performance standard titled “diversity and inclusion” that was used to calculate executive pay, he said “significant concerns remain.”
“I want to ensure that Disney ends any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just name,” he wrote.
A Disney spokesperson said in a statement that the company was “reviewing the Federal Communications Commission’s letter, and we look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions.
