Tech firm Yahoo has eliminated a number of pages and different sections from its company web site in latest months regarding its variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) insurance policies, TechCrunch has discovered.
A bit of Yahoo’s web site that was beforehand devoted to DEI now not hundreds and as an alternative redirects to the corporate’s govt management web page. A earlier model of Yahoo’s management web page from late 2024 touted language mentioning variety and inclusion however doesn’t seem on Yahoo’s present web site. Yahoo’s 2022 variety report now not hundreds and returns a “page not found” error. Whereas open positions on Yahoo’s profession web site nonetheless promote a hyperlink to Yahoo’s former DEI web page, the web page now redirects to Yahoo’s management web page.
Yahoo, which owns TechCrunch, made the web site adjustments between December 2024 and January 2025, in line with historic copies of Yahoo’s web site hosted on the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Brenden Lee, a spokesperson for Yahoo, informed TechCrunch in an announcement: “We revamped our corporate website late last year as the first part of a planned, multi-phase redesign timed to CES and our Yahoo Ads relaunch. The first phase reduced the total volume of content by nearly 60 percent with a focus on streamlining navigation and spotlighting our advertising and business solutions.”
Yahoo is the most recent U.S. firm of late to reduce its public statements about DEI amid ongoing efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on DEI insurance policies in each the private and non-private sectors.
Since taking workplace once more, President Trump has signed a number of govt orders geared toward placing strain on non-public firms to roll again their DEI applications. In February, U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi ordered the Justice Division to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize” DEI applications at non-public sector firms that obtain federal funds.
A number of tech firms, together with Google and OpenAI, have already scrubbed mentions of DEI from their web sites in latest months. Meta additionally eradicated its company DEI applications days earlier than the Trump administration took workplace, citing a “changing” authorized panorama concerning DEI. Quickly after, Amazon deleted wording regarding inclusion and variety from its annual report filed with regulators.
TechCrunch reported in March that U.S. medical health insurance big UnitedHealth additionally scrubbed a lot of its web site of mentions of DEI.
Disclosure: Yahoo is the mum or dad firm of TechCrunch. On March 21, Regent introduced it will purchase TechCrunch.
