Summary

  • During Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event another employee protested the company’s relationship with the government of Israel.
  • This was the second protest of the day, the first being when Ibtihal Aboussad called Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman “a war profiteer”.
  • “Shame on you all. You’re all hypocrites,” said Microsoft employee Vaniya Agrawal in reference to the company’s technology being used in the murder of 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
  • She also announced that she was leaving the company, and that her last day would be April 11th.
  • In an email to employees, she explained that she believed Microsoft was empowering the oppressors and contributing to genocide.
  • Microsoft’s technology has been implicated in a $133m contract between Microsoft and Israel’s Ministry of Defense.

By Tom Warren

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