Microsoft and Google said on January 11th local time that the two companies will suspend their political donations until “after assessing the impact of last week’s (the impact of Congress) incident”.
Microsoft made the decision on the 9th. Microsoft said: “The Political Action Committee (PAC) will suspend donations in the first quarter of the new Congress, but more measures will be taken to consider these recent events and consult with employees.”
Google spokesman Julie McAlister also issued a statement on the 11th: “We have frozen all political donations to the Political Action Committee Network (NetPAC), and we will re-examine and evaluate it after last week’s deeply disturbing incident. Policy.
Apple is also joining in a report that more and more technology companies have said they will suspend political donations.
Earlier on the 11th, AT&T and Facebook announced similar measures.
