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    11 months ago

    From the Description:

    Jan - Google fired 12,000 staff including their head of health and wellbeing

    Feb - Google said employees must come back to the office and share desks. Bard (Chat GPT competitor) launches.

    March - Google gave data to the police to help prosecute abortion seekers after Roe vs Wade was overturned. And they fired multiple staff after giving birth.

    April - Google announces cost-cutting measures including cutting back on staplers. Google, Meta and X propose an alliance to combat misinformation.

    May - South Korea fined Google for anti-competitive practices and Google continued to sell climate disinformation ads (after promising to stop).

    June - Google replaces it’s fired workers with “low-paid foreign workers” and donated to an anti-abortion Republican Committee

    July - Google uses our data to train Bard and increases the cost of YouTube Premium.

    Aug - Google offers staff an on-campus hotel room for $99 a night. And YouTube ads may have led to the online tracking of children.

    Sept - Google Pixel Watches have no parts or repair program and Google Maps led a dad to his death over a collapsed bridge.

    Oct - Google’s AI consumes as much electricity as Ireland and Alphabet hired an underqualified man (who didn’t even apply for the job) over a woman.

    Nov - Google backs out of building affordable housing in the Bay Area and spent $26 billion to be your default search engine.

    Dec - Google caught putting ads on adult websites 🌽 and McDonalds is using Google AI to test if your fries are fresh.