Federal Communication Commission Head ordered Walt Investigation Disney What. and its ABC network regarding their diversity, justice and inclusion procedures, the expansion of its research of the media and telecommunications companies for perceived discriminatory distortion.
FCC chairman Brendan Carr ordered the Agency's Office to “ensure that Disney and ABC would not break the FCC equal jobs by supporting the indidiction forms of DEI discrimination.”
Specifically, Carr has triggered Disney policies, including the “Reimagine Tomorrow” initiative, which has “50% of regular and recurring characters” for “insufficiently represented groups”, according to and according to A to A. letter Carr wrote to CEO Disney Bob Iger and published X Friday.
“Disney started a hundred years ago as an iconic American society,” Carr wrote. “But then something changed. Disney has now been involved in the rounds of controversy around his polic dei.”
Since he was appointed President Donald Trump at the beginning of this year, Carr sent similar letters Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. He recently told Bloomberg that dei -company procedures would affect her chances of admissionApproval of mergers.
Carr noted that Disney had recently returned some of his initiatives Dei, but said that “there was a significant concern”. At the beginning of this year, Disney said this would end Reimagine tomorrow the program Carr called. The company is alsoremoval of diversityfrom the criteria for determining the compensation of the manager.
“We are reviewing a letter from the Federal Communication Commission and looking forward to working with the Commission to answer his questions,” Disney spokesman said.
Disney's modern remakeSnow White and the Seven Dwarfshit theaters at the beginning of this month under acriticismIncluding the excessive cast of the actress of the Colombian heritage as a title and a re -presentation of seven dwarfs.
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