The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Chairman

FCC chair Brendan Carr, after publicly musing that he might go after Disney over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, made it official: The agency has opened a probe into DEI practices at Disney and ABC. It’s the latest warning shot from Carr against media companies in the Trump administration’s war against DEI.

Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote that while Disney has walked back its DEI programs, ‘it is not clear that the underlying policies have changed.’

President Donald Trump’s FCC commissioner said Friday he’s opening an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network to see whether they are “promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”

In that letter, Carr accused Disney’s broadcast network ABC of “attempting to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations under the threat of terminating long-held affiliations, which could result in blackouts and other harms to local consumers of broadcast news and content.”

The agency regulates eight ABC television stations owned by Disney, which hold FCC-issued licenses. This article, FCC Chair Brendan Carr targets Disney’s DEI practices, was first published at The Desk.

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FCC chair Brendan Carr said he wants a review all of Disney's DEI practices — both past and present — to determine whether the company has ever violated any FCC regulations.