Microsoft’s emergency ultimatum to Gab in August 2018 exposed a growing fault line in internet governance: cloud providers now sit squarely between platform free-speech arguments and real-world harms when violent or genocidal rhetoric appears on hosted services. The episode — Microsoft notifying...
Microsoft has opened an externally supervised review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s intelligence services used a bespoke environment running on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse very large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — a development that...
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