Apple shareholders voted down a measure on Tuesday to end the technology company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion program. The world’s leading technology company rejected a proposal from the GOP-aligned National Center for Public Policy Research in a vote that broke with an increasingly anti-DEI trend set by a host of major U.

Apple shareholders rejected a proposal to eliminate internal programs intended to boost the diversity of the company's workforce on Tuesday before its public shareholder meeting.

Apple shareholders rejected a request to abolish its Inclusion & Diversity program at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. Despite opposing the measure, Apple CEO Tim Cook did warn that the legal landscape around diversity issues may force Apple to make changes.