{"id":933476,"date":"2025-05-24T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933476"},"modified":"2025-05-24T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:21:31","slug":"who-is-joe-lopez-pro-palestinian-microsoft-techie-fired-after-disrupting-satya-nadellas-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/24\/who-is-joe-lopez-pro-palestinian-microsoft-techie-fired-after-disrupting-satya-nadellas-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Joe Lopez? Pro-Palestinian Microsoft techie fired after disrupting Satya Nadella\u2019s keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a prolonged streak of big tech layoffs and other sackings focussed on curbing protests, Microsoft has fired Joe Lopez, according to the Associated Press. The software engineer made headlines earlier this week for disrupting Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s keynote at the tech giant\u2019s Build developer conference in Seattle. <\/p>\n<p>No Azure for Apartheid, a group of \u201cMicrosoft workers demanding that Microsoft end all Azure contracts and partnerships with the Israeli military and govt,\u201d previously shared clips of pro-Palestinian tech staffers interrupting several leading executives\u2019 speeches at Microsoft Build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a prolonged streak of big tech layoffs and other sackings focussed on curbing protests, Microsoft has fired Joe Lopez, according to the Associated Press. The software engineer made headlines earlier this week for disrupting Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s keynote at the tech giant\u2019s Build developer conference in Seattle. No Azure for Apartheid, a group of \u201cMicrosoft workers demanding that Microsoft end all Azure contracts and partnerships with the Israeli military and govt,\u201d previously shared clips of pro-Palestinian tech staffers interrupting several leading executives\u2019 speeches at Microsoft Build.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933476","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=933476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}