FCC Chair Opens Diversity Probe Against Disney/ABC

Deadline reports:

The Walt Disney Co. is the latest media conglomerate to be targeted by Donald Trump‘s FCC chairman over its DEI practices.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said today that he sent a letter to Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger announcing that the agency had opened an investigation into whether Disney and ABC “have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”

The FCC chair claims that the agency has authority as ABC is a regulated entity. He wrote that the Communications Act and commission rules prohibit regulated companies “from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age or gender.”

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Earlier this month Disney shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a right wing investor group’s demand that

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