60. At the in-person training, entitled “Bias Busting,” Google discussed how biases against
women exist in the workplace, and how “white male privilege” exists in the workplace.
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61. At the end of the Diversity Training, the presenters asked the audience members to
submit any written feedback they might have to them. In response, Damore electronically submitted
the memo he had drafted, which had been updated multiple times with comments and feedback from
other Google employees, once again to Google HR. Google HR once again ignored Damore, and did
not respond to the memo in any way.
62. On or about August 2, 2017, at the suggestion of a Google colleague, Damore
submitted the edited memo to
skeptics@google.com (“Skeptics”), another message board for Google
employees only.
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64. On or about August 4, 2017, an unknown Google employee leaked the memo to either
Vice Motherboard or Gizmodo, which selectively quoted from the memo and misinterpreted it. This
“news story,” distorting Damore’s internal memo on workplace issues, was picked up by other media
outlets, until Damore’s memo went viral across the world.
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67. On August 3, 2017 George Sadlier (“Sadlier”), a Director at Google, sent out a mass
email condemning James’ essay as “repulsive and intellectually dishonest” and promising an HR
investigation into Damore. Sadlier also promoted posts that advocated for physical violence against
Damore. Subsequently, On Friday, August 4, 2017, Damore received a late-night email from Alex
Hidalgo, a Site Reliability Engineer at Google in Sadlier’s organization, which stated, “You’re a
misogynist and a terrible person. I will keep hounding you until one of us is fired. Fuck you.”