Google faces fire from 1,400 employees for firing Black researcher; netizens are appalled

More than 1,400 Google employees, on December 3, gared to protest against sacking of a black employee. Timnit Gebru, who was technical co-le at Google’s ethical AI team h previously mitted that she was asked to resign after she called out "silencing of marginalized voices" in company. ''I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. My corp account has been cutoff. So I've been immediately fired :-),'' she wrote in a tweet.

In her tweet, she also revealed that Google asked her to retract her research paper which looked at potential for an AI tool used by Google and or tech organisations to imitate human writing of hate speech and biased language, an NPR report stated. Gebru’s tweet received online support as netizens flocked in to share ir views and extend support. As many as 1,400 employees are now endorsing an online letter, which asks Google to explain ethic officer's sacking along with reason for ordering her to revoke her research.

'Exceptionally talented' 

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"Inste of being embraced by Google as an exceptionally talented and prolific contributor, Dr Gebru has faced defensiveness, racism, gaslighting, research censorship, and now a retaliatory firing. In an email to Dr Gebru’s team on evening of December 2, 2020, Google executives claimed that she h chosen to resign. This is false. In ir direct correspondence with Dr Gebru, se executives informed her that her termination was immediate, and pointed to an email she sent to a Google Brain diversity and inclusion mailing list as a pretext, " res an excerpt from letter. 

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Here is how netizens reacted to Timnit Gebru's post on Twitter: