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General view of Google EMEA offices, in the western part of the Grand Canal Docks, in Dublin.<br />
On Thursday, December 17, 2020, in Dublin, Ireland.

Google’s Aramco deal risks irking staff over oil, Saudi politics

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg

A person wearing a protective mask holds a mobile phone at an entrance to the Google campus in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google. At its center is a bold claim: Google colluded with archrival Facebook Inc. in an illegal deal to manipulate auctions for online advertising, an industry the two companies dominate.

Google blames Gmail, YouTube outage on error in user ID system

By Mark Bergen, Nico Grant, and others

Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California.

Google workers escalate fight over ouster of top A.I. researcher

By Josh Eidelson, Mark Bergen, and others

CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg appears on a monitor as he testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing ‘Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?’, on Capitol Hill, October 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey; CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai; and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg all testified virtually at the hearing. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act guarantees that tech companies can not be sued for content on their platforms, but the Justice Department has suggested limiting this legislation.

Big Tech draws record revenue, harsh criticism with election ads

By Kurt Wagner, Mark Bergen, and others

YouTube follows Facebook in banning QAnon, but with caveats

By Mark Bergen, Joshua Brustein, and others

Google plans changes for election day.

Google to pause political ads on election day after polls close

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg

An outage at Cloudflare disrupted parts of the Internet.

Parts of the Internet are disrupted by outage at service provider

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.

Google workers ask CEO to end company’s work with police

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg

Google is the latest on a long list of companies around the globe to cancel a conference and shift company plans because of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Google cancels major Las Vegas conference over coronavirus concerns

By Mark Bergen, Gerrit De Vynck, and others

David Drummond, senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer at Google parent Alphabet.

Alphabet’s Top Lawyer to Retire Following Questions on Conduct

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg

Google’s workplace culture is experiencing serious growing pains, with some employees fighting back against issues like a decrease in transparency.(Photographer: Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

With Transparency Declining at Google, Internal Conflict Is on the Rise

By Ryan Gallagher, Mark Bergen, and others

YouTube’s definition of banned speech now includes clips that have “veiled or implied threats” against individuals or insult people based on race and sexual orientation. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

YouTube Bans Clips That Insult or Threaten People Because of Race or Sexual Orientation

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg

Alphabet CEO Larry Page is stepping down

Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Stepping Down at Alphabet

By Market Analyst

Google

Google Employees Fired Amid Activism Plan Federal Labor Complaint

By Mark Bergen, Josh Eidelson, and others

Google Fires 4 Employees for Violating Data Security—But Critics Say It’s Retaliation for Protesting

By Gerrit De Vynck, Mark Bergen, and others

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