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Microsoft used the take-out-the-trash time of Friday evening to announce its political action committee (PAC) has suspended donations to US politicians who voted to object to the certification of electors in the 2020 US presidential election, or who “supported such objections or suggested the election should be overturned.”
The suspension will run “for the duration of the 2022 election cycle”. The next congressional elections are on November 8th, 2022, so Microsoft’s “suspension” will run for under two years.
The policy was revealed in a post to Microsoft’s blog that repeated the text of an email sent to staff by Fred Humphries, the company’s corporate veep of US government affairs.