{"id":1175,"date":"2025-09-13T04:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/elon-musk-is-trying-to-silence-microsoft-employees-who-criticize-charlie-kirk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:11:57","slug":"elon-musk-is-trying-to-silence-microsoft-employees-who-criticize-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/elon-musk-is-trying-to-silence-microsoft-employees-who-criticize-charlie-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk is pressing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard employees who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Musk\u2019s post quotes an X thread listing names and screenshots of the developers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s going on here, @satyanadella?\u201d Musk said<\/a>. \u201cThese are Microsoft employees,\u201d he added in another post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s going on here, @satyanadella<\/a>? https:\/\/t.co\/acO5poJMm8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Musk\u2019s direct question to Nadella follows a broader censorship crackdown<\/a> from Republicans targeting individuals celebrating Kirk\u2019s death or criticizing him. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said he would use \u201cCongressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Blizzard developer Mark Kern, who goes by \u201cGrummz\u201d online and frequently posts about right-wing issues on X, quoted the original thread<\/a>, claiming that the screenshotted posts showed Blizzard employees \u201ctrashing\u201d Kirk. Musk then quoted the post himself with his question to Nadella.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re aware of the views expressed by a small subset of our employees regarding recent events,\u201d Microsoft said in a post on X<\/a>. The post is not a reply to Musk but was shared on its main @Microsoft page. \u201cWe take matters like this very seriously and we are currently reviewing each individual situation. Comments celebrating violence against anyone are unacceptable and do not align with our values.\u201d (The screenshots in the thread shared by Musk do not celebrate the shooting against Kirk.) Nadella has not replied to Musk publicly as of this writing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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