IBM folds to U.S President anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty | IBM is first firm to pay penalty under U.S President’s “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/ibm-folds-to-trump-anti-dei-push-admits-no-misconduct-but-pays-17m-penalty/
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Where does the money go?
Indian Business Machine
IBM, the company that had an enthusiastic relationship with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and made a bunch of money during the Holocaust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust)?
That IBM?
The orange mobster is pay-to-play.
IBM caved to a senile pedophile
FIFY
What a bunch of chumps
Sounds like the next administrations can just keep suing them and getting a payout
Republicans are so good for business!!!!!11!1 🥰
Just a simple payout to funnel money into the president’s pockets and curry favor.
The Last Stand of CEO’s justifying their pay…….
So they paid a bribe.
IBM never misses an opportunity to back the Nazis
Extortion. ‘Murica!
Cowards.
Party of Small Government!
Did they pay it directly to Trump?
IBM = dumbasses. When u stand up to him, he folds.
“We didn’t do anything wrong. Here’s $17M anyway.”
I’m beyond sick of people bending the knee to the pant-shitting crybaby.
They’ll be back soon for another shakedown
17 million is nothing for them compared to what a law suit would cost.
Bribe. Got it.
US history rhyming yet again.
IBM pays tRump 17 million to keep him and his goons from attacking them.
There. I fixed the headlines………..
That money is going to pay down our debt, right?
Or is this ANOTHER presidential slush fund?
What? IBM collaborating with a bunch of fascist dicks?
Inconceivable!! /s
*IBM fined 17 million for training black people, agrees
Old habits die hard
Humorously, IBM’s annual policy training stuff includes an entire segment on government bribery and pay-for-play. I guess they’re using it as a playbook these days.
wasn’t trump convicted for not renting to black people, and hiring people to harass black people so they move out. so that guy started a white supremacists initiative and called it civil rights.
These fucking cowards.
There’s a fucking fine for dei? Fuck trump and all his dumb ass supporters
Who gets the money? Trump or the government? If it’s trump then it’s a criminal offense
And this is what happens when you appease a dictator.
Eventually they come for you, even if you are not involved, even if you were an ally.
Anytime a company settles and pays a penalty, they’re saying they know their guilty.
Founded in 1911 making punch card machines, but would [make anything for anyone for enough money](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-hJL4s5ZFgw).
I thought IBM was supposed to have killer lawyers?
It’s crazy all because they don’t want to lose government contracts. So they pay a small “fine” to settle a baseless lawsuit that they hope people will forget in a couple weeks.
Pay up or no more H1Bs
Why wouldn’t they? Who benefits from Jim Crow Hiring Practices, which is basically what anti-DEI is intended to achieve. So, when the type of federal contracts IBM is competing for, against minority-owned companies, ate eliminated under anti-DEI and anti-Affirmative Action scams, who will end up getting the contract? IBM!
So, it makes sense to me that they will gladly cave and pay, even though there is no evidence that those they want to marginalize are gaining anything!
Paid $17m to WHO?
$17M bribe. At least say it out loud.
So extortion
Sure, they’ll go after IBM for this bullshit but fuck going after the real corporate douche bags (looking at you OpenAI).
The mafia organization masquerading as a state gets another payoff.
Well FU IBM. Whether they admit to anything or not, they capitulated. They are complicit
just leaving this here ….. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust)