Google Punishes Whistleblowing Engineer with Administrative LeaveHours after Google engineer Greg Coppola appeared with James O’Keefe in a Project Veritas video, he was put on administrative leave by his company. In the video, Coppola said that he believed that Google News and Google’s search engine algorithms were biased. He also claimed that CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony to Congress in December 2018 was not “true.â€
Google has chastised those employees who have gone against its agenda. In 2017, Google fired engineer James Damore after he wrote a memo about the company’s “ideological echo chamber.†In 2019, Republican engineer Mike Wacker was fired after he complained about the hostile attitude in the corporate culture toward conservatives.
If Coppola is let go, he will be the third public victim of Google’s inherent bias toward conservative engineers. ...
In the long run, Google is setting itself up for the same sort of consequences that racial discrimination brings to a business that discriminates racially. Good conservative - and, IMO, in-betweeners and some liberals, people with consciences - engineers and manglement people will go to Google's competitors. Google's product quality will suffer, and competitors will grow stronger.
