Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

Elon Musk is pressing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard employees who criticized Charlie Kirk aft his death. Musk’s station quotes an X thread listing names and screenshots of the developers.

“What’s going connected here, @satyanadella?” Musk said. “These are Microsoft employees,” he added successful different post.

Musk’s nonstop question to Nadella follows a broader censorship crackdown from Republicans targeting individuals celebrating Kirk’s decease oregon criticizing him. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said helium would usage “Congressional authorization and each power with large tech platforms to mandate contiguous prohibition for beingness of each station oregon commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” 

Former Blizzard developer Mark Kern, who goes by “Grummz” online and often posts astir right-wing issues connected X, quoted the original thread, claiming that the screenshotted posts showed Blizzard employees “trashing” Kirk. Musk past quoted the station himself with his question to Nadella.

“We’re alert of the views expressed by a tiny subset of our employees regarding caller events,” Microsoft said in a station connected X. The station is not a reply to Musk but was shared connected its main @Microsoft page. “We instrumentality matters similar this precise earnestly and we are presently reviewing each idiosyncratic situation. Comments celebrating unit against anyone are unacceptable and bash not align with our values.” (The screenshots successful the thread shared by Musk bash not observe the shooting against Kirk.) Nadella has not replied to Musk publically arsenic of this writing.