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" Weiner suspected it was in part political, a way to sidestep Trump administration scrutiny over inadvertent Microsoft support for orgs the government did not like."

"The context surrounding Microsoft’s decision gives some clues. The PR trade-offs of nonprofit support are very different now from when Microsoft began offering these grants in 2013. At that time, charitable giving was trendy in the tech sector, with brands like Microsoft boasting of their employees’ multimillion-dollar donations—complete with matching funds—and the companies’ own philanthropic efforts. In more recent years, as Microsoft has struggled to catch up in the A.I. race and faced public skepticism over its purported social justice commitments, the company has refocused on supercomputing and on primarily appeasing the man who could help this pursuit (President Donald Trump), whatever the costs."