The town hall meeting had been scheduled to give Google employees a chance to discuss the fallout from a document written by software engineer James Damore that began circulating widely within the company last week, and was leaked to the press over the weekend. Breitbart has published a series of articles singling out individual Google employees as “social justice warriors”, in some cases accompanied by screenshots of internal chats about diversity. The leak of screenshots to Breitbart suggests that at least some current Google employees may be participating in the campaign. Indeed, the Google memo is a major topic on the main subReddit for Gamergaters, known as r/KotakuInAction. Some of the Google employees whose profiles were publicized by the “alt-right” appeared to be getting harassing messages on Twitter.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2017 02:03 UTC