FCC Launches Probe Into DEI Policies At One Of Corporate Media’s Largest Strongholds

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 rules set forth specific requirements that both Comcast and NBCUniversal must adhere to.”

“Nonetheless, I am concerned that Comcast and NBCUniversal may be promoting invidious forms of DEI in a manner that does not comply with FCC regulations,” Carr wrote. Carr also stated in the letter that at his “direction,” the FCC “has already taken action to end its own promotion of DEI.”

President Donald Trump announced his pick to head the FCC in November, praising Carr in a post on Truth Social for being “a warrior for Free Speech” who has “fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy.” Under Carr’s leadership, the FCC released