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FCC Chairman Brendan Kerr announced a new investigation into “DEI Practices” on X Friday at Disney and its flagship company ABC.
“We asked the @FCC Enforcement Bureau to begin an investigation of Disney and ABC,” Kerr wrote. “Disney started out as an iconic American company, but recently it all joined DEI.
“I’m worried that their DEI practices could violate the FCC ban on mysterious forms of discrimination.”
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In his letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger, Carr explained that he “hopes to ensure that Disney and ABC are not violating the FCC Equal Employment Opportunity Regulations.”
According to Carr, the Communications Act and the FCC “prohibit regulated entities such as Disney’s ABC from discriminating based on race, color, religion, national origin, age or gender.”
FCC Chairman Brendan Kerr has announced a survey of Disney and ABC’s DEI Practices. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images / Getty Images)
Carr also cited several news reports in recent years for reasons of the FCC survey that included one employee account that “corresponds to racially segregated affinity groups and spaces.”
“(Disney) has also released its ‘Reimagine Tomorrow’ initiative. It emerges as a mechanism to advance that mission,” Carr writes. “We also implement the mandatory “inclusion criteria” throughout the ABC, requiring, for example, 50% of regular and repetitive characters to be drawn from “underrated groups.”
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“These standards may have forced the allocation of race and identity to all levels of production. They require that “more than 50%” of writers, directors, crews and vendors be selected based on group identity,” Carr writes.
According to a preliminary tally, only 1% of Disney shareholders who voted against the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index last week voted.
HRC’s Corporate Equality Index is described as “a national benchmark tool for corporate police, practices, and profits related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees.” Disney has scored 100 top score this year.
“Chair Kerr was consistent and clear from day one. He hopes that all regulated companies will end the mysterious form of DEI discrimination,” a FCC spokesman shares with the FOX Business.
ABC headquarters in New York City. (Gary Hershorn / Getty Images / Getty Images)
The Trump administration made headlines in its first 100 days for anti-DEI policies and executive orders in sectors and agencies across the country.
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order declaring a similar policy at the Smithsonian facility.
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A Disney spokesperson said in a Fox Business investigation: “We are reviewing the Federal Communications Commission letter and look forward to working with the committee to answer questions.”
ABC did not immediately respond to Fox Business’s request for comment.
