Google reportedly fires author of anti-diversity memo

CEO Sundar Pichai says internal document that criticised efforts to promote women and under-represented minorities is 'contrary to our basic values'

Google reportedly fired a software engineer on Monday after a document he wrote criticising the company's diversity efforts and attributing the tech industry's gender imbalance to biological differences between men and women went viral.

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