The United Group has cleared much of its website, citing its diversity, capital and inclusion policies (Dei), including withdrawal of blog posts and removing large sections from its website, Techcrunch has learned.
According to the archived copies of the Uniethealth website, some of the company websites dedicated to Dei no longer upload and now redirect to a “page not found” error. Part of the company’s career site that once had a section dedicated to diversity, equality and inclusion, along with its diversity initiatives, no longer appears on the same site live. United also removed a 2022 blog post including a conversation with her DEI vice president.
It is not clear why the uniethealth attracted the pages, and whether it represents a verb relocation or a current change in its policies. United Tyler Mason’s spokesman did not return the requests for comment Wednesday
The removal of Dei from the UNITEHALTH websites coincides with a wide withdrawal from Dei’s policies and programs from the names of households and technology companies alike, amid the increasing pressure from executive orders issued by the Trump administration targeting Dei programs.
In February, US Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Justice Department to “investigate, eliminate and penalize” Dei programs he considers illegal in private sector companies receiving federal funds. A Federal Court of Appeal temporarily allowed the Trump administration to move forward, despite a lower court rules the efforts of the illegal government.
Some technology companies have already cleared Dei’s mention from their websites, including Google and Openi.
Techcrunch saw the unityhealth crash its websites, mentioning Dei all over Wednesday morning. Since Ransomware attack on changing health care last year, Techcrunch has used a website monitor to automatically and continuously check for any changes to its website, such as the updates in its data breach notice.
In the removal of “diversity, capital and inclusion” on the UNITEHealth website menu, the company added a weakened diluted site it calls the “culture of belonging”, which leaves previous references to the company’s diversity efforts on university campuses, diversity in recruitment and various company resource groups.
