{"id":1002449,"date":"2026-04-11T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002449"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:17:04","slug":"ibm-to-pay-17-million-to-settle-us-government-probe-over-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/11\/ibm-to-pay-17-million-to-settle-us-government-probe-over-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM to pay $17 million to settle US government probe over DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a US government probe over the firm&#8217;s diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has cracked down on during his second term \u200cin office. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2060settlement \u2060marks the first resolution from the US Department of Justice&#8217;s unit formed last year called the &#8220;Civil Rights Fraud Initiative&#8221; to crack down on DEI policies using a civil anti-fraud law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a US government probe over the firm&#8217;s diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has cracked down on during his second term \u200cin office. The \u2060settlement \u2060marks the first resolution from the US Department of Justice&#8217;s unit formed last year called the &#8220;Civil Rights Fraud Initiative&#8221; to crack down on DEI policies using a civil anti-fraud law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}