Disney and ABC Under FCC Investigation Over DEI Policies

The FCC said an inclusion standard at ABC required 50 percent of regular or recurring characters featured on its network to be from ‘underrepresented groups.’

Visitors walk through the Disney Springs shopping center in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 9, 2024. Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has ordered a probe into Disney’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies to assess whether they amount to discrimination, racial or otherwise.

“I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation into Disney and ABC,” Carr wrote in a March 27 letter addressed to Disney CEO Robert Iger. “In particular, I want to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”