Thursday, August 10, 2017

"Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has cancelled its much anticipated meeting to talk about gender issues today" due to fear participants would be harassed

Recode:
The move came after some of its employees expressed concern over online harassment they had begun to receive after their questions and names have been published outside the company on a variety of largely alt-right sites

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Sources inside Google said some employees had begun to experience “doxxing” — online harassment that can take various forms and is defined “searching for and publishing private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.”