InterDigital - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

InterDigital is Medium Risk.

InterDigital, Inc. is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. InterDigital implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled 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:

Medium

Rationale:

InterDigital promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Supplier Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policy (1). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

InterDigital does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2). The company’s charitable giving focus areas are: “technology and engineering fields, particularly for diverse and historically underserved communities.” (3).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

InterDigital offers unconscious bias and DEI training to its employees (1)(2). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment and hiring. From its Human Capital page: “We have prioritized several strategies to foster an inclusive workplace that celebrates the diversity of backgrounds, styles, and thought, including standardizing and publishing diversity-focused recruiting and hiring practices and processes” (3). InterDigital does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

InterDigital supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report: “In 2023, we continued to execute InterDigital’s DEI strategy, under the four pillars of ‘TEAM’ – Talent, Empowerment, Amplify, and Membership. This accomplishment was led by our DEI Taskforce, an employee-led team focused on supporting strategy execution” (1). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report: “the ways our innovation and contributions to standards enable us to exhibit and uphold our ESG commitments every day. As our ESG journey continues, we recognize not just the progress we have made as a company but also the ways our principles of diversity, inclusivity, equity, and sustainability influence our impact beyond our innovation” (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

InterDigital has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

InterDigital has not used its PAC donations or lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).