Tech firm Yahoo has eliminated a number of pages and different sections from its company web site in latest months referring to its range, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) insurance policies, TechCrunch has realized.
A bit of Yahoo’s web site that was beforehand devoted to DEI now not hundreds and as a substitute redirects to the corporate’s government management web page. A earlier model of Yahoo’s management web page from late 2024 touted language mentioning range and inclusion however doesn’t seem on Yahoo’s present web site. Yahoo’s 2022 range report now not hundreds and returns a “web page not discovered” error. While 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 modifications between December 2024 and January 2025, in line with historic copies of Yahoo’s web site hosted on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Brenden Lee, a spokesperson for Yahoo, advised TechCrunch in an announcement: “We revamped our company web site late final 12 months as the primary a part of a deliberate, multi-phase redesign timed to CES and our Yahoo Ads relaunch. The first part diminished the overall quantity of content material by almost 60 p.c with a give attention to streamlining navigation and spotlighting our promoting and enterprise options.”
Yahoo is the newest U.S. firm of late to cut back 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 government orders aimed toward placing stress on non-public corporations to roll again their DEI applications. In February, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the Justice Department to “examine, get rid of, and penalize” DEI applications at non-public sector corporations that obtain federal funds.
Several tech corporations, 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 “altering” authorized panorama relating to DEI. Soon after, Amazon deleted wording referring to inclusion and variety from its annual report filed with regulators.
TechCrunch reported in March that U.S. medical health insurance large UnitedHealth additionally scrubbed a lot of its web site of mentions of DEI.
Disclosure: Yahoo is the father or mother firm of TechCrunch. On March 21, Regent introduced it might purchase TechCrunch.
