In a letter posted to LinkedIn dated January 5, David W. Baker, a Google director of engineering who worked on trust and safety, wrote that he was leaving the company as of January 19 after more than 16 years. Gebru’s departure, Baker wrote, “extinguished my desire to continue as a Googler.” Similarly, Vinesh Kannan, a software engineer, posted on Twitter Wednesday that he left Google this month “because of Google’s mistreatment” of Gebru and April Curley, a Black ex-Google diversity…
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