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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Technology
Vinay Patel

Microsoft Slammed For Banning 'Palestine', 'Gaza' and 'Genocide' in Internal Emails Amid Israel Ties

Microsoft faces employee backlash over alleged email censorship, blocking terms like 'genocide' and 'Palestine.'

Tech giant Microsoft is under fire after reports revealed it is blocking internal emails containing the words 'Palestine', 'Gaza', and 'genocide' — triggering backlash from employees and fuelling an already growing row over the company's ties to Israel.

As tensions soar around the company's cloud services contracts with the Israeli military, staff are raising alarm bells over what they see as corporate censorship of one side of a deeply polarising issue.

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