I think this link does a nice job of contextualizing at least part of the situation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/google-s-co-head-of-ethi

I think this link does a nice job of contextualizing at least part of the situation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/google-s-co-head-of-ethical-ai-says-she-was-fired-over-email https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/google-s-... I’ve been at companies where I’m faced with an approval process before publishing research to the outside world. It can be quite stressful, especially in the face of holidays and impending deadlines. However I guarantee that if anyone had a problem with the work, they would take the time to tell me why. And it would happen without untitled meetings or unrelated email drama. They might even work with me to fix the problem because they’re my coworkers and that’s what it means to work together in a normal workplace where people respect each other as colleagues. Sadly every piece of publicity related to Google and its workers makes me want to work there less and less...