The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigates Walt Disney diversity practices and its ABC Unit, as they could violate the rules of equal opportunities in the use of the United States.
The president of the regulator, Brendan Carr, wrote to the executive director of Disney, Robert Iger, in a letter dated Thursday that the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion of the company may not have complied with the regulations and that the changes implemented may not be enough.
“I want to make sure that Disney ends all discriminatory initiatives in the background, not only in the name,” Carr wrote in the letter, to which Reuters had access.
He has sent letters to Comcast and Verizon announcing similar research on diversity practices.
“We are reviewing the letter of the Federal Communications Commission and we hope to interact with the commission to answer your questions,” said a Disney spokesman.
Disney recently reviewed its executive compensation policies to eliminate diversity and inclusion as a performance metric, adding a new standard called “Talent Strategy”, aimed at defending the company’s values.
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Carr said that the regulator compliance office will work with Disney “to obtain a report from the Disney and ABC Dei programs, policies and practices.”
Carr, who was appointed president by President Donald Trump on January 20, has been aggressively investigating media companies.
In December, ABC News agreed to donate 15 million dollars to the future Trump presidential library to resolve a lawsuit for the comments that presenter George Stephanopoulos did in the air in relation to the civil case presented against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll.
Days after Carr assumed the presidency, the FCC resumed complaints about Harris’s interview in “60 minute”, as well as how ABC News moderated the pre -election television debate between then President Joe Biden and Trump. He also resumed complaints against NBC, owned by Comcast, for allowing Harris to appear in “Saturday Night Live” shortly before the elections.
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Trump sued CBS for 20,000 million dollars, claiming that “60 minute” cheated the interview to interfere with the November presidential elections, which he won.
CBS, owned by Paramount Global, asked the FCC this week to dismiss the complaint “Without Delay”, but Carr quickly rejected the idea, saying that the investigation would continue.
With Reuters information
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