Microsoft Threatens to Pull Gab Services Over Anti-Semitic Posts
- Software giant says posts incite violence, violating policies
- Gab social-media site has attracted users with extreme views
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Microsoft Corp. threatened to suspend web-hosting services it provides to Gab.ai after getting a complaint about anti-Semitic posts on the social-media site, a new twist in the technology industry’s controversial crackdown on hate speech.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing division said it would take action in two business days if Gab didn’t remove two posts that prompted the complaint about "malicious activity," according to a post on Thursday by Gab.