The move aligns with a broader retreat from diversity programs amid legal exposure as the new administration aims to eliminate DEI mandates across the private sector.

Amazon Studios -- along with its parent company, the broader tech industry, and much of corporate America -- has discontinued its Inclusion Policy and Playbook unveiled in the summer of 2021.

In the wake of the FCC chairman’s probe into DEI practices at Comcast and NBCUniversal, Amazon Studios has walked back its inclusion program that laid out standards for achieving racial diversity, Variety has confirmed.