The Trump-Vance administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a probe into Comcast over its policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wrote a letter on Tuesday to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts announcing that the regulator would be investigating Comcast to ensure that it is not promoting unfair forms of discrimination through its DEI efforts. Carr stated in the letter that he was “concerned” that Comcast may be “promoting invidious forms of DEI in a manner that does not comply with FCC regulations.”
“As you know, the Communications Act and Commission rules prohibit regulated entities—like Comcast and NBCUniversal—from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, or gender,” Carr wrote in the letter. “Indeed, the FCC’s longstanding Equal Employment Opportunity or EEO…
