Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupt the 50th anniversary of the company to protest its work by supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli army, according to a group representing the works.
Microsoft did not respond immediately to a comment request.
The protests begin to receive when Microsoft Software Engineer Ibtihal Aboussad climbed to a phase where an executive was announcing new product features and a long -term vision of Microsoft’s ambitions.
“You pretend to take care to use him for good, but Microsoft sells the weapon of him in the Israeli army,” regarding Microsoft’s Microsoft CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “Fifty people with Tod have different powers and Microsoft this genocide in our region.”
The protest forced Suleyman to stop his speech, which withdrew from Microsoft campus to Redmond, Washington. Among the 50th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft were co-founder Bill Gates and the former CEO Steve Ballmer.
“Thanks for your protest, I hear you,” Suleyman said. Aboussad continued, shouting that Suleyman and “all Microsoft” had blood in their hands. She also staged a Keffiyeh scarf, who has become a symbol of support for Palestinian people, before being accompanied by the event.
A second protester, the employee of Microsoft Vaniya Agrawal, interrupted a subsequent part of the event.
Aboussad was invited Monday to a video call with a human resources representative in which she was told that she was running out immediately. Aggwal was announced by email, according to the No Azure law group for Azure, who protested the sale of Microsoft’s Azure Cloud computer platform in Israel.
An investigation by the Associated Press earlier this year that the models of he from Microsoft and Openai were used as part of an Israeli military program to select the bombing targets during recent wars in Gaza and Lebanon. The story also contained details of a wrong Israeli air attack in 2023 that hit a vehicle that held members of a Lebanese family, killing three young girls and their grandmother.
In February, five Microsoft employees were taken out of a meeting with CEO Satya Nadella to protest the contracts.
“We offer a lot of ways to all the voices to be heard,” one state from the company said on Friday. “Importantly, we demand that this be done in a way not to cause a business interruption. If this happens, we ask participants to relocate. We are committed to ensuring that our upticie business practices support the highest standard.”
Microsoft had refused to say on Friday if he was taking further action. Aboussad told the AP that she lost her entry into her work accounts shortly after the protest and had not been able to register again.
Dozens of Google workers were fired last year after internal protests over a contract the technology enterprise with the Israeli government has. Employee officials at Google officials in New York and Sunnyvale, California, were aiming for a $ 1.2 billion deal known as Project Nimbus providing a technology for the Israeli government.
Google workers later file a complaint to national labor relations in an effort to restore their jobs.
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