Group of now-ex Googlers say 50 folks have been let go, vow ongoing protests
After firing 28 people for protesting its cloud deal with Israel by occupying its offices, Google reportedly spent the weekend letting go of more staff to bring the number of employees let go over the incident to an even 50.
One anonymous speaker, going by"Oreo," said that they, a Palestinian now-former Google employee with relatives in Gaza, only went into one of the protest sites to meet some of the participants of the sit-in. Afterward, Oreo claimed to have gone outside the building on public property to hold a sign in support of the protest.
We've asked Google to comment on how it made decisions to dismiss staff, and to confirm the 50-person count, but haven't heard back.details According to the report, it's the first instance of a direct link between Google Cloud and the Israeli military being found after years of concern about Project Nimbus.Amazon to bring a full region to Israel, land of large government contractsFired Google employees are therefore convinced the biz is facilitating, as one speaker said, an"AI-powered genocide in Palestine."
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