As tech giants like Google, Facebook parent Meta and others introduce steps to help protect the US Presidential Elections 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that his company has a role to play in safeguarding the process amid the growing risk of misinformation.
Nadella, in an interview with Bloomberg, suggested that being an American company, it becomes all the more important to support the democratic election process as the country’s stature across multiple dimensions matters a lot on a global level.
“The one thing that I’m always grounded on is we are also an American company. So the state of the United States, politically, economically, socially and its stature in the world across those dimensions matters a lot,” Nadella said.
“So I think that because that’s our passport, when we show up anywhere, at the end of the day, we are an American company. And to the degree to which America has the relationships, they welcome the companies that are born in the United States,” the India-born executive highlighted.
Microsoft supports the democratic process of elections
Nadella said that the company has a challenge to “ensure the integrity of elections.”
“In that context, obviously, in our democratic process, having that process be well administered, that people have trust in it, I think is super important. So we have always been through the years we have done a lot around what does it mean to support the democratic process, whether it’s the support for…
Nadella, in an interview with Bloomberg, suggested that being an American company, it becomes all the more important to support the democratic election process as the country’s stature across multiple dimensions matters a lot on a global level.
“The one thing that I’m always grounded on is we are also an American company. So the state of the United States, politically, economically, socially and its stature in the world across those dimensions matters a lot,” Nadella said.
“So I think that because that’s our passport, when we show up anywhere, at the end of the day, we are an American company. And to the degree to which America has the relationships, they welcome the companies that are born in the United States,” the India-born executive highlighted.
Microsoft supports the democratic process of elections
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“In that context, obviously, in our democratic process, having that process be well administered, that people have trust in it, I think is super important. So we have always been through the years we have done a lot around what does it mean to support the democratic process, whether it’s the support for…