Posted 3/10/2024, 2:50:00 AM
Google fires employee who interrupted tech talk, accusing company of enabling 'genocide'
- Google employee interrupted tech conference, accusing company of "powering genocide" through Project Nimbus partnership with Israel
- Employee shouted anti-Israel statements, referencing conflict with Hamas, before being removed by security
- Project Nimbus is $1.2B contract between Google, Amazon Web Services, and Israel to provide cloud services
- Google executive Barak Regev was giving speech when disruption occurred, handled it calmly
- Google confirmed employee who disrupted conference was terminated for violating company policies