{"id":923541,"date":"2025-04-19T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923541"},"modified":"2025-04-19T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:29:46","slug":"microsoft-employees-protest-over-ties-to-israel-and-gaza-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/19\/microsoft-employees-protest-over-ties-to-israel-and-gaza-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft employees protest over ties to Israel and Gaza conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, Microsoft has faced internal unrest due to employee protests over the company\u2019s alleged involvement in Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza. The protests reflect growing concern among staff about the ethical implications of Microsoft&#8217;s AI and cloud computing services being used by the Israeli military. <\/p>\n<p>Key Events and Protests <\/p>\n<p>April 4, 2025: During Microsoft\u2019s 50th anniversary event, AI executive Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted by employees Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal in protest of Microsoft&#8217;s ties to Israel. Both were fired days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, Microsoft has faced internal unrest due to employee protests over the company\u2019s alleged involvement in Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza. The protests reflect growing concern among staff about the ethical implications of Microsoft&#8217;s AI and cloud computing services being used by the Israeli military. Key Events and Protests April 4, 2025: During Microsoft\u2019s 50th anniversary event, AI executive Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted by employees Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal in protest of Microsoft&#8217;s ties to Israel. Both were fired days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}