The tech company said it would launch a legal probe.
For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “using AI for genocide.” Now, the company claims it’s launched an “urgent” probe into whether its cloud business is being used by Israel to conduct a massive surveillance operation in Gaza.
The company’s announcement comes on the heels of a report published by The Guardian, which claims that Unit 8200, Israel’s shadowy intelligence agency, had been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud servers.
