Microsoft demands fringe social network pull Anti-Semitic posts
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Microsoft is cracking down on hate speech by threatening to pull its cloud services from Gab, a controversial social networking service that's been hosting anti-Semitic comments from a former US Senate candidate.
On Thursday, Gab said that Microsoft had given it 48 hours to delete the anti-Semitic comments or else it would pull its Azure services from the social networking platform, leaving it offline potentially for weeks or months.