Google tone down forum after employee feud over war on Gaza
For nearly 14 years, an online message board called Memegen has served as a virtual water cooler for Google employees.Memegen was a place where employees could offer blunt criticism of their bosses, share dark humor about job cuts or joke about receiving notes from their parents to excuse them from returning to the office after the pandemic.But Google executives, after watching employees criticize the war in Gaza in recent months, are making big changes to lower the temperature on their company's beloved forum, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.One of the most significant changes to Memegen will be the removal of the virtual thumbs down. The most liked memes rise to the top of Memegen based on these votes. The unpopular ones quickly disappear from sight. Another ...