The spokesperson added that in Mitchell’s case, Google’s “systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts,” and the company notified her on Wednesday.
In a December email to employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would investigate Gebru’s firing, according to Axios.
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“I’ve heard the reaction to Dr. Gebru’s departure loud and clear: it seeded doubts and led some in our community to question their place at Google,” Pichai said in the email. “I want to say how sorry I am for that, and I accept the responsibility of working to restore your trust.”
Gebru has spoken publicly about Google’s response to her exit and its investigation into Mitchell’s email behavior on Twitter. She has alleged that Google censored and fired her while she was on vacation.
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In a tweet posted on Dec. 2, the day before Gebru said Google fired her, she tweeted that Google employees who “harass women or threaten them you do not get fired.”
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“As far as I know I was the first Black woman ever to be hired as a research scientist there out of god knows how many RSs,” Gebru tweeted on Dec. 8. “And man was it toxic. Whenever I talked to my friends about the latest issue I was dealing with, [people]…would wonder why I was still there.”
AWU said it is “committed to supporting” its members “when they face harassment, retaliation, and discrimination.”
