NEW: FCC Opens Investigation Into Disney, ABC Over Discriminatory Practices
The Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau has opened an investigation into ABC and parent company Disney to ensure that neither entity is violating equal employment opportunity regulations through “DEI discrimination.”
“I want to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employee opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of [diversity, equity and inclusion] discrimination,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday in a letter to Walt Disney Company Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger.
The FCC is working to ensure ABC and Disney have ended “any and all discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just in name,” the letter continued.
Carr is also investigating whether Disney’s actions at all times were in compliance with FCC regulations, even if the actions in question have ended. “Disney started out a century ago as an iconic American company,” the FCC chair wrote.
“For decades, Disney focused on churning out box office and programming successes,” he continued. “But then, something changed. Disney has now been embroiled in rounds of controversy surrounding its DEI policies.”
Carr added that “numerous reports” suggest Disney executives “went all-in on insidious forms of DEI discrimination” that “infected” the company’s entire operation and decision-making. Under the Communications Act and FCC guidelines, companies like ABC and Disney are prevented from discriminating under the basis of race, religion, national origin, age or gender, the letter noted.
“I am concerned that ABC and its parent company have been or may still be promoting invidious formed of DEI in a manner that does not comply with FCC regulations,” Carr said.
Disney has further been accused of prioritizing DEI policies and “embedded explicit race- and gender-based criteria across its operations.”
In 2024, a bombshell civil rights complaint highlighted a number of Disney’s race-based hiring practices, including one stipulation that 50 percent of its TV series directors must come from “underrepresented groups.”
The complaint also cites a leaked internal Disney document that was published by Elon Musk.
The document, which details Disney’s “Inclusion Standards,” describes the company’s intention “to increase training and development opportunities for members of underrepresented groups.”
Carr has also accused ABC of implementing mandatory “inclusion standards,” that require half of all regular and recurring characters to depict “underrepresented groups and at least half of all writers, directors, crew and vendors be hired based on group identity,” Breitbart News reported.
“It appears that executive bonuses may also have been tied to DEI ‘performance,’ and ABC has utilized race-based hiring databases and restricted fellowships to select demographic groups,” Carr wrote.
As of this report, the FCC is unsure whether Disney and its subsidiary company have fundamentally changed their DEI policies that violate FCC requirements.
In a statement to the BBC, Disney said that they have received the commissioner’s letter and are in contact with the FCC. “We look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions,” the statement said.
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