Yahoo is the grandpa of the internet – the purple-portal pioneer from 1994 that used to rule search, email, and chat rooms before Google showed up and turned it into the Blockbuster Video of tech, now limping along under private equity overlords Apollo Global Management, desperately slinging clickbait headlines, fantasy sports, finance tickers, and refuse to let go of their @yahoo.com address like it's a landline. Once valued at $125 billion in the dot-com bubble (before popping harder than a woke balloon at a based barbecue), it got bought by Verizon for chump change, stripped for parts, and now survives as a content farm that somehow still gets more traffic than your aunt's Facebook feed.
As for woke, Yahoo is the ultimate hypocrite hero, corporate side hit the big red “delete DEI” button in early 2025, scrubbing every trace of rainbow-washed employee groups and racial equity, but the news portal is still a non-stop woke IV drip of trans-kid cheerleading, Pride parades in article form, climate doomerism, and enough social-justice sanctimony to make your eyes roll into next week. They went full camouflage mode on the HR virtue while keeping the content farm cranking liberal slop.
Verizon Media, including Yahoo, committed to elevating Black voices by commemorating Juneteenth across its platforms in 2020. The company hosted live events and discussions on the census and Juneteenth's cultural significance.
Yahoo received an almost perfect 95 score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ inclusion for ten consecutive years. The company implements Pride-themed products and events to support LGBTQ rights.
Yahoo partnered with Scope3 to provide carbon-neutral private marketplace media inventory for advertisers. The initiative focuses on measuring and reducing carbon emissions in the digital ad supply chain.
Yahoo's Prism employee resource group for LGBTQIA2S+ employees and allies marched in a Pride parade in 2023. The group actively participates in Pride events to promote community.
Verizon Media, including Yahoo, committed $5 million in ad inventory to support Black-owned small businesses in 2020. The company also announced actions to enhance diverse talent opportunities and highlighted 100% pay equity with respect to race and ethnicity.
AllSides rates Yahoo! News media bias as Lean Left. The rating is based on editorial reviews, community feedback, and independent reviews.
Yahoo maintains a permanent LGBTQ+ tag that aggregates content on LGBTQ+ topics. The section features dozens of articles promoting LGBTQ+ visibility and events.
Yahoo has removed several pages and sections from its corporate website relating to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies between December 2024 and January 2025. A previous version of Yahoo's leadership page from late 2024 mentioned diversity and inclusion, but the current page no longer does, and the 2022 diversity report now returns a "page not found" error.