The Axios article says: According to a source, Mitchell had been using automated scripts to look through her messages to find examples showing discriminatory t

The Axios article says: According to a source, Mitchell had been using automated scripts to look through her messages to find examples showing discriminatory treatment of Gebru before her account was locked. Google's own statement, quoted by Axios, says: Yesterday our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts. You're taking those as if they say the researcher was just using her mail client the way everybody does, but that's not what they say at all. The first one ("using automated scripts to look through her messages") says nothing about downloading at all; the second, official one, says that "thousands of files" were "shared with multiple external accounts." The allegation is clearly that the researcher wrote scripts to select (an apparently large number of) specific messages and forwarded those messages to people outside the company. Nobody is saying "OMG SHE USED IMAP!". They're saying "She sent internal corporate emails to people outside the corporation."