dont be evil
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Former Google Exec Says He Was Forced Out For Opposing Company’s Pivot To Evil
A onetime top Google executive, former head of international relations Ross LaJeunesse, is now publicly alleging that the company abandoned its “Don’t be evil” ethos because it was more interested in chasing “bigger profits and an even higher stock price.”
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Internal Google Docs Warn Not To Gift Contractors Shirts In Case They Start Thinking They’re Employees: Report
Internal Google documents obtained by the Guardian warn full-time Google staff to treat temps, vendors, and contractors (TVCs)—which comprise just short of half of the company’s 170,000 workers around the globe—much differently than they treat fellow full-timers.
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Could Google Decide The Next Election With Its Search Algorithm?
We trust Google not to be evil, but new evidence published by prominent psychologist Robert Epstein suggests that if it wanted to, Google could undermine democracy — simply by tweaking its search algorithm.