SCOOP: Google has drastically rolled back its diversity work due to fears of being perceived as anti-conservative. Sources say employees have been pushed out, programs cut, and workers have been discouraged from even using the word diversity anymore https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/current-ex-employees-allege-google-drastically-rolled-back-diversity-inclusion-n1206181

Sources told me new diversity trainings at Google lack the racial justice framework that employees worked hard to build. Google confirmed its turning to vendors to create its diversity training, saying it lacks the resources to build D&I trainings in-house https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/current-ex-employees-allege-google-drastically-rolled-back-diversity-inclusion-n1206181

Google is a model for workplace culture in Silicon Valley and beyond. There's a concern other companies could follow suit, and that if Google and other tech companies deprioritize diversity, that philosophy will impact the AI products that we all rely on https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/current-ex-employees-allege-google-drastically-rolled-back-diversity-inclusion-n1206181