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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Johana Bhuiyan

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Microsoft employee interrupts ceo s keynote with pro palestinian protest - The Untold Story

a man speaks into a microphone while seated onstage
The Microsoft chief executive, Satya Nadella, speaks in Menlo Park, California, on 29 April. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP

A Microsoft employee disrupted a keynote speech by the company’s chief executive with a pro-Palestinian protest at the company’s annual developer conference on Monday.

Joe Lopez, a Microsoft firmware engineer who worked on parts of the company’s cloud-computing platform, Azure, was escorted out the Build conference by security nearly immediately after he confronted Satya Nadella.

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