Is Microsoft ethical?

In October last year, after these demands were published, Microsoft fired two employees who organized a vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza.

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Microsoft shuttered 15+ China offices, moved Surface and Xbox production out, and cut 400 Azure jobs while China contributes just 2% of its global revenue.

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But the company has also kowtowed to pressure from the Trump administration to roll back Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) commitments and has removed some hate speech protections on LinkedIn, which Microsoft owns.

Microsoft isn’t the only company that seems to contradict its own politics by promising to cover abortion travel costs for employees, while at the same time donating to political action committees that funded the governors and attorneys general who fought to overturn Roe v.

Tulipshare cited Microsoft's expansion of employee benefits to cover travel costs for abortion care as contradictory to its political giving.

Microsoft to help cover U.S. employees' travel costs for abortion

Microsoft to help cover U.S. employees' travel costs for abortion

Tulipshare cited Microsoft's expansion of employee benefits to cover travel costs for abortion care as contradictory to its political giving.

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“Sending multiple militarized police forces after protestors demonstrates that Microsoft views organizing as a serious threat to its bottom line.”

“Microsoft demonstrated that our organizing threatened their business by calling multiple county police departments, as well as the Washington State Police, who then inflicted several injuries on people in our community,” says Julius Shan, another Microsoft employee fired in the wake of the confrontation.

In just the first three months of 2026, 11 top tech companies, including Alphabet, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI, spent $20 million on lobbying, according to an analysis of first-quarter lobbying reports by Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group.