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Everything Toxic Google Did in the last 12 months.
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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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.