NEWS: FCC Says It Will Begin Investigating Disney Over DEI Practices

The Trump administration announced last month that it would begin investigating companies like Comcast and Verizon due to their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices.

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Now, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says he will “likely start probing” those same practices at the Walt Disney Company as well, per Business Insider.

Brendan Carr, the current chairman of the FCC, told Punchbowl News his goal with investigating Disney would be similar to the “DEI-centric” investigations he already announced for Comcast and Verizon.

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This is especially timely since Disney shareholders rejected an anti-DEI proposal during the company’s annual shareholder meeting earlier in March.

Before announcing these investigations, Carr stated that the FCC might block any deal involving a company that promotes DEI practices. “Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” he said in March.

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Trump and his administration have made it clear that he feels many media companies are biased against him, regularly threatening to take action against them. Earlier in March, during a speech at the Department of Justice, Trump called MSNBC and CNN “illegal,” and “political arms of the Democrat Party.”

Carr (who was appointed to the FCC by Trump in 2017) has stated that his agency will be looking into several media companies, even going so far as to say their broadcast licenses could be at stake.

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Disney recently settled a lawsuit Trump filed as a private citizen in the fall of 2024, and later agreed to make a $15 million donation to his presidential library — in addition to paying another $1 million in attorney’s fees in a case about on-air comments from ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos.

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We’ll continue to keep an eye out for more updates on this potential new investigation into Disney by the Trump administration. In the meantime, make sure you stay tuned to the Disney Food Blog for the latest Disney news.

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