Comcast

This company is on OpenSecrets.org's list of "Top Spenders on Lobbying", a list of the 20 organizations that have spent the most trying to influence US government policy. This company comes in at number 13 on the list, having spent $13,150,000 on lobbying between 1998 and 2021.
Source: Open Secrets (2021)

In 2019, a federal judge approved a $15.5m settlement in a class action lawsuit over set-top box rentals. The lawsuit argued that Comcast's requirement that premium cable subscribers rent its set-top boxes was anti-competitive and unlawful.
Source: Philadelphia Business Journal (2019)

In June 2019, a judge ordered this company to pay $9.1m in penalties for violating Washington state's Consumer Protection Act. The judge ruled that Comcast signed nearly 50,000 customers up for a monthly maintenance plan without their consent and misrepresented the monthly cost associated with it.
Source: Geek Wire (2019)

In 2020 the European Commission fined several companies belonging to Comcast Corporation (including NBCUniversal Media LLC) 14.3 million euros for restricting traders from selling licensed merchandise within the European Economic Area to territories and customers beyond those allocated to them.
Source: European Commission (2020)

This company is on OpenSecrets.org's list of "Top Donors", a list of the 100 biggest givers in US federal-level politics since 1990. Companies on this list lobby and spend big, with large sums sent to candidates, parties and leadership PACs. This company comes in at number 36 on the list, with contributions totalling $59,236,125 between 1990 and 2020.
Source: Open Secrets (2020)

In 2022 the median pay for a worker at this company was US$83,399. The CEO was paid 385 times this amount. Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality. CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more). In contrast, the CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio was 20-to-1 in 1965 and 58-to-1 in 1989.
Source: AFL-CIO (2023)

This company is on OpenSecrets.org's list of "Top Spenders on Lobbying", a list of the 20 organizations that have spent the most trying to influence US government policy. This company comes in at number 6 on the list, having spent $19,680,000 on lobbying in 2020.
Source: Open Secrets (2021)

As You Sow's 2022 report, 'The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs', reveals the 100 most overpaid CEOs from USA's 500 largest public companies (as determined by the S&P 500 list). This company's CEO, Brian Roberts came in at number 30 on the list, having been paid US$32,713,267 in 2021. In As You Sow's 2021 report this company's CEO came in at number 14. According to the report, "Most CEOs have come to be grossly overpaid, and that overpayment is harmful to the companies, the shareholders, the customers, the other employees, the economy, and society as a whole."
Source: As You Sow (2022)

This company received an S&P Global ESG Score of 28/100 in the Media category of the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, an annual evaluation of companies' sustainability practices (last updated 18 Nov 2022). The rankings are based on an analysis of corporate economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as corporate governance, risk management, environmental reporting, climate strategy, human rights and labour practices.
Source: S&P Global (2022)

The Invest Your Values Corporate Retirement Plan Sustainability Scorecard by As You Sow rates retirement plans on seven environmental and social sustainability issues. This company's default corporate retirement plan offered to employees is the Vanguard Target Retirement Fund which is rated Fair for gender equality and civilian firearms, and Poor for fossil fuels, deforestation, prison industrial complex, military weapons and tobacco. This retirement plan has millions of dollars invested in fossil fuels, deforestation-risk agribusiness, and arms manufacturers.
Source: As You Sow (2022)

JUST Capital polls Americans every year to identify the issues that matter most in defining just business behaviour. For their 2023 rankings JUST Capital asked a representative sample of 3,002 Americans to compare 20 different business Issues on a head-to-head basis, producing a reliable hierarchy of Issues ranked in order of priority. Issues are organised under the headings Workers, Customers, Communities, the Environment, or Shareholders & Governance. JUST Capital then define metrics that map to those issues and track and analyse the largest, publicly traded U.S. companies. This analysis powers their rankings, in which this company ranked 533rd of 951 companies, and 6th of 10 Telecommunications companies.
Source: JUST Capital (2023)