FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs

Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has asked his agency to analyse Comcast’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, reports Newsmax. “We person received an enquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will beryllium cooperating pinch 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 investigation into Comcast and its NBCUniversal operations will assistance the commission’s broader efforts to guidelines 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 for illustration Disney and CBS for airing contented that’s not friends 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 management “effort to weaponize the powerfulness of the FCC.” Carr was a Trump appointee, and he wrote the Project 2025 section connected really 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 investor successful Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.)