Full report
Points deducted by category
- DEI hiring, pay & suppliers: 13/15 points deducted
- Board unanimously recommended AGAINST a 2025 shareholder proposal for a report on affirmative-action risks; it failed with 1.5M votes for vs. 329.0M against. (source)
- Live "Inclusion" page on about.netflix.com publishing its USC Annenberg inclusion reports and stating it works "to ensure our workforce reflects the members we serve"; workforce data by gender and race appear in its 2025 ESG Report. (source)
- Internal policies & benefits: 0/10 points deducted
- Free speech, debanking, deplatforming & anti-military/anti-American conduct: 0/15 points deducted
- Political giving (PAC, treasury, leadership): 2/10 points deducted
- FEC records show personal contributions by Reed Hastings, Netflix's co-founder, while he served as its executive chairman: $6,908,816.75 to Republican Accountability PAC (Aug 13, 2024), whose FEC independent-expenditure reports show spending in support of Kamala Harris, plus about $4.0 million to Senate Majority PAC and $1.75 million to House Majority PAC in the 2024 cycle. FEC records show no 2024-cycle contributions from him to Republican candidates or party committees. Hastings left Netflix's board in June 2026. (source)
- Advocacy, lobbying & public statements: 3.5/15 points deducted
- Company post: "To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter. We have a platform, and we have a duty…" (source)
- HRC's Business Coalition for the Equality Act roster dated Sept. 16, 2024 (118th Congress) lists "Netflix Inc., Los Gatos, CA"; the coalition is "a group of leading U.S. employers that support the Equality Act." HRC's current roster file is not public. (source)
- Marketing, products & content: 6/10 points deducted
- "Cuties" marketing poster criticized for sexualizing child actors; Netflix apologized for the "inappropriate artwork" and replaced it. (source)
- Reversal: Apologized for and replaced the "Cuties" poster. (source)
- Extended first-look film/TV deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions (paid content deal with a partisan political figure; v2 sub-item pending approval). (source)
- Charitable & activist funding: 2.5/10 points deducted
- Fund for Creative Equity: $100M over five years (2021 to 2026) for training and job placement for "underrepresented" talent; still within its term. (source)
- ESG, activist investing & industry/regional boycotts: 0/10 points deducted
- China & foreign-adversary ties: 0/5 points deducted
- Election & voting-law activism: 4/10 points deducted
- Netflix is listed as a corporate signer of the "We Stand for Democracy" two-page ad (NYT and Washington Post, Apr 14, 2021), which opposed "any discriminatory legislation or measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter" from voting, published as states including Georgia passed election-law changes. (source)
- Border & immigration enforcement: 2/10 points deducted
- Netflix joined the "Brief of 143 U.S. Business Associations and Companies" (Supreme Court, DHS v. Regents, Nos. 18-587/588/589, Oct 3, 2019) supporting the challengers to the rescission of DACA. (source)
- Faith, family & children: 10/10 points deducted
- Netflix children's series centered on a transgender character (one item per issue): Netflix's own title page lists "Dead End: Paranormal Park" as TV-Y7, "Kids," genre "LGBTQ+ TV Shows" (viewed Oct 21, 2026), and Netflix's Tudum site (Mar 31, 2025, "Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility with These 16 Movies and Shows") says the series "features a trans character" and "centers on Barney and Norma," and that "his grandmother won't accept his transition." Also reported: preschool series "Ridley Jones" (TV-Y, 2021) includes a bison who, per AP, "identifies as neither male or female." (source)
- Climate & anti-fossil-fuel advocacy: 0.5/10 points deducted
- Proxy describes science-based emissions targets and offsets "in support of global net zero goals" (operational). (source)
- Second Amendment & lawful-firearms commerce: 0/10 points deducted
- Government-coordinated content moderation: 0/10 points deducted
- Abortion advocacy, benefits & funding: 2.5/10 points deducted
- Then-content chief Ted Sarandos said Netflix would support legal challenges to Georgia's heartbeat abortion law and would "rethink our entire investment in Georgia" if it took effect. (source)
- June 24, 2022: a Netflix spokesperson said full-time U.S. employees and dependents get travel reimbursement for care including abortion, a $10,000 lifetime allowance per service (LA Times); Variety: up to $10,000 "for cancer treatment, transplants, gender affirming care, or abortion." (source) (source)
- American Workers & H-1B Displacement: 0/10 points deducted
Final verdict: Grade F
Grades run A (best) to F (worst) on a 0–100 scale, where a higher score is better: every company starts at 100 and loses points for each finding. Every finding links to its source. See how we rate for the scale and the category caps.