SCOOP: Google has drastically rolled back its diversity work due to fears of being perceived as anti-conservative. Sources say employees have been pushed out, programs cut, and workers have been discouraged from even using the word diversity anymore https://t.co/1SwuEBsAIZ

— april glaser (@aprilaser) May 13, 2020

Same day Google releases diversity PR on the women of color making AI less biased (featuring exceptional people) @aprilaser publishes an expose documenting the company's drastic disinvestment in diversity & inclusion

You can't have both, Google... https://t.co/WrQioFhaaL pic.twitter.com/mL09mmG1Ur

— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) May 14, 2020

Google is a model for workplace culture in Silicon Valley and beyond. There's a concern other companies could follow suit, and that if Google and other tech companies deprioritize diversity, that philosophy will impact the AI products that we all rely on https://t.co/1SwuEBsAIZ

— april glaser (@aprilaser) May 13, 2020

Sources told me new diversity trainings at Google lack the racial justice framework that employees worked hard to build. Google confirmed its turning to vendors to create its diversity training, saying it lacks the resources to build D&I trainings in-house https://t.co/1SwuEBsAIZ

— april glaser (@aprilaser) May 13, 2020

SCOOP from @aprilaser

Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, eight current and former employees tell @NBCNews. https://t.co/OuYflniufD

— Sally Shin (@sallyshin) May 13, 2020

Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity programs https://t.co/Kt3gNxxCFz via @nbcnews

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) May 14, 2020

“A hundred black employees could testify to the pain they feel in a climate that’s inadvertently hostile towards them and management will go back and say, ‘I need to get more data,’ and then three angry white men complain and everything comes to a halt” https://t.co/xb1Z8IgXPK

— Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru) May 13, 2020

Google rolled back its diversity programs to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, say current and former employees - an important story by @aprilaser https://t.co/lgfvnLdyNZ

— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) May 13, 2020

This is absurd ? Current and ex-employees allege @Google drastically rolled back diversity programs https://t.co/XTC7wpV0su via @nbcnews #diversity #inclusion

— Gail Zoppo ?? (@Zapwoman) May 14, 2020

NBC: Google winds down diversity initatives to appease conservatives / @beschizza at @BoingBoing, cc ⁦@wokyleeks⁩ (Google Whistleblower on precisely this stuff, James Damore and white supremacy and pedo-friendly policies) https://t.co/FhYx8IDWSX

— Xeni Jardin ?? (@xeni) May 14, 2020

Report: Google ends diversity training to appease conservative critics https://t.co/WVzWXKXPgv

— kanga in quarantine (@pouchedfox) May 14, 2020