'Progressive virtue signaling' | CrowdStrike faces DEI lawsuit, days after suggestions diversity played part in global IT outage

The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has been hit with a lawsuit against its DEI initiatives, following suggestions that diverse hiring was partly to blame for the software update that crashed millions of computers around the world last week.

America First Legal (AFL), a conservative legal rights group, has filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the company, for allegedly limiting, segregating, and classifying white and male employees for training and promotions in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The AFL has also sent a letter to CrowdStrike’s board of directors “to remind them of their fiduciary duties and liability for wasting corporate assets and destroying shareholder value in the name of progressive virtue signaling.”

DEI concerns raised after global tech chaos

The lawsuit was announced days after a glitched software update was sent out to more than eight million Microsoft devices across the globe, causing flights to be cancelled and seeing hospitals, pharmacies, police forces, banks, and all manner of businesses affected.