Interpublic Group

New York
Commercial and Professional Services

Risk Level:

Rating - Danger
High Risk

Summary:

Interpublic Group (IPG) has stopped doing business with gun advocacy groups likes the NRA. Interpublic also vets suppliers according to its LGBTQ policies. Interpublic has pledged to provide travel benefits for abortions. Interpublic Group does not have viewpoint protections for its employees. It also promotes ideas associated with critical race theory and partners with ideological nonprofits to provide "antiracist" resources to parents. For these reasons, Interpublic receives a "High Risk" rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Interpublic received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means that Interpublic has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (1). Interpublic has refused to do business with organizations such as the NRA (2).

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Interpublic does not match funds but does not discriminate in its giving to faith-based groups engaged in nonsectarian activity (1).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Interpublic does not protect employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Interpublic promotes ideas such as those that “Children can begin to show racial bias as young as 3 years old” in its ESG report (1). Following the death of George Floyd, IPG promoted Black Lives Matter through the “Blackout Tuesday” campaign (2). Interpublic was also a member of the Civic Alliance, which has pushed back against voting integrity measures (3)(4). Interpublic’s subsidiary McCann also works closely with anti-gun groups (5).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Interpublic has pledged to provide travel benefits for abortions (1). It also partners with the Anti-Defamation League and other nonprofits to teach “anti-racist” parenting approaches (2).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Interpublic does not operate a PAC.

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March 24, 2023

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