Tech company Yahoo has removed several pages and other sections from its corporate website in recent months relating to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, TechCrunch has learned.
A section of Yahoo’s website that was previously dedicated to DEI no longer loads and instead redirects to the company’s executive leadership page. A previous version of Yahoo’s leadership page from late-2024 touted language mentioning diversity and inclusion, but does not appear on Yahoo’s current website. Yahoo’s 2022 diversity report no longer loads and returns a page “not found” error. While open positions on Yahoo’s career website still advertise a link to Yahoo’s former DEI page, the page now redirects to Yahoo’s leadership page.
Yahoo, which owns TechCrunch, made the website changes between December 2024 and January 2025, according to historical copies of Yahoo’s website hosted on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Brenden Lee, a spokesperson for Yahoo, told TechCrunch in a statement: “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 latest U.S. company of late to scale back its public statements about DEI amid ongoing efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on DEI policies in both the public and private sectors.
Since taking office again, President Trump has signed several executive orders aimed at putting pressure on private companies to roll back their DEI programs. In February, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the Justice Department to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize” DEI programs at private sector companies that receive federal funds.
Several tech companies, including Google and OpenAI, have already scrubbed mentions of DEI from their websites in recent months. Meta also eliminated its corporate DEI programs days before the Trump administration took office, citing a “changing” legal landscape regarding DEI. Soon after, Amazon deleted wording relating to inclusion and diversity from its annual report filed with regulators.
TechCrunch reported in March that U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth also scrubbed much of its website of mentions of DEI.
Disclosure: Yahoo is the parent company of TechCrunch. On March 21, Regent announced it would acquire TechCrunch.
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