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Web Summit is losing speakers due to its CEO’s posts about Israel and Hamas.

Garry Tan, CEO of the famous tech startup incubator Y Combinator, has withdrawn from participating in this year’s Web Summit, which is one of the largest tech conferences in the world.

He and several other speakers are pulling out after Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave posted and liked messages that are critical of the Israeli government on X. Tan also noted that Cosgrave recently went into business with the country of Qatar, which is a known backer of Hamas.

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