FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs

Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has asked his bureau to analyse Comcast’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, reports Newsmax. “We person received an enquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and volition beryllium cooperating with the FCC to reply their questions,” Comcast spokesperson Joelle Terry confirms to The Verge.

According to Newsmax, Carr said that FCC is looking for signs that the company’s initiatives person violated national employment law, writing: “I expect that this probe into Comcast and its NBCUniversal operations volition assistance the commission’s broader efforts to basal retired invidious forms of DEI favoritism crossed each of the sectors the FCC regulates.”

Since taking power of the FCC past month, Carr has threatened to propulsion broadcast licenses of companies similar Disney and CBS for airing contented that’s not affable to Trump and conservatives. He has besides ordered investigations into NPR and PBS for “airing commercials,” which chap Commissioner Anna Gomez told The Verge was a Trump medication “effort to weaponize the powerfulness of the FCC.” Carr was a Trump appointee, and helium wrote the Project 2025 section connected however the FCC should rein successful large companies.

In summation to its cable, wireless, and net services, Comcast owns a swath of broadcasters, including NBC Universal, streaming work Peacock, and galore others. (Disclosure: Comcast is besides an capitalist successful Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.)

Under the caller Trump administration, galore companies are proactively winding down their DEI programs seemingly to debar becoming targets. By the clip an enforcement bid connected January 20th declared DEI was a corrupting unit creating “a divisive and unsafe preferential hierarchy,” Meta had already disbanded its diverseness team and Amazon had coiled down immoderate DEI programs; Google joined them less than a week ago.