Disney faces United States research on the practices of

The United States government agency that regulates television says that it is opening an investigation into the practices of diversity and inclusion of Disney, in the last pressure sign that is applied to media companies.

The president of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, sent A letter A Disney on Friday notifying the company and its ABC news unit, of the Plan.

He said that the measure had been promoted by the concerns that the company was promoting diversity “in a way that does not meet” government regulation.

A Disney spokesman said the company is checking the letter.

“We hope to get involved with the commission to answer your questions,” said a Disney spokesman in a statement.

The FCC’s research on Disney is also produced in the midst of a broader repression against DEI practices by the Trump administration, with impacts that feel beyond the United States.

French companies with contracts from the United States government received a letter from the American Embassy in France this week, asking them to sign and comply with Trump’s executive order that prohibits Dei programs.

The order, according to the letter, “applies to all suppliers and service providers of the United States government, regardless of their nationality and the country in which they operate.”

In a letter addressed to Robert Iger, the executive director of Disney, president of the FCC, said he wants to ensure that the media company “ends each and every one of the discriminatory initiatives in substance, not just the name.”

He added: “I want to determine whether Disney’s actions, whether they are continuous or finished recently, complied at all times with applicable FCC regulations.”

Carr has been a member of the FCC since 2017 and was appointed to direct the agency for Trump in November.

Since it was appointed for the position, the scrutiny of media companies has increased, launching NPR and PBS probes and demanding information from large technological companies, including Apple and Google, about their use of services that influence how news articles are classified.

The FCC also announced investigations from Verizon and Comcast and its media unit, NBCuniversal on its initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Disney, better known for his cartoon classics and thematic parks, made changes to his Dei policies earlier this year.

“While I have seen reports that Disney recently returned to some of its Dei programs, there are significant concerns,” Carr wrote in the letter.

“I want to make sure that Disney and ABC have not violated the regulations for Equal Employment Opportunities of the FCC by promoting forms of Deli discrimination,” he said.

Carr said that he wanted information about rules that govern the representation of diversity in his characters, among other initiatives.

Research is not the first time that Disney has been a political objective.

Last year, he agreed to pay $ 15 million to resolve a demand for defamation filed by Donald Trump after an ABC star presenter said falsely that the president had been found “responsible for rape.”

A New York jury had previously determined that Trump was responsible for “sexual abuse”, which has a specific definition under the New York Law.

The Republican governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, also spent years fighting with Disney, after the company criticized a state law, known as “do not say gay” that restricted the teaching of sexuality in schools.

Disney has previously been the objective of conservatives for allegedly adopting “awakened” messages in their films.