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Ready or not, the era of corporate political responsibility is upon us

© Getty Images The politics of racial justice have become red hot, and major corporations are finding it hard not to get burned. On March 25, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Big Atlanta companies Coca-Cola and Delta tried to avoid getting embroiled in the fray, believing that working behind the scenes and making general statements supporting “increased voter participation” would suffice. But they were almost immediately confronted with boycott threats from activists. And on March 31, a group of Black executives took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times condemning the Georgia law for restricting voting opportunities, which will fall especially hard on people of color. At that point, Coca-Cola and Delta reversed course, deciding to make strong public statements condemning SB202 as “unacceptable” because it would “make it harder for people to vote, not easier.”

Microsoft suspends donations to politicians who backed attempt to overturn US presidential election

But for less than two years and while putting distance between staff donors and Microsoft itself Share Copy 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.

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