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162 Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 04/07/2025 16:05 EDT

Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

Microsoft has fired one of the employees who disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event. In an email seen by The Verge, Microsoft told Ibtihal Aboussad that their employment has been terminated due to “acts of misconduct.” Aboussad was one of two protesters that interrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event on Friday by calling Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa […]

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