International | Letter from Alphabet

The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore

Last week this newspaper said Alphabet’s boss should write a “detailed, ringing rebuttal” of a viral anti-diversity memo sent at Google. Here is how we imagine it

Created on: 15 August 2017 at 15:15 (Delivered after 1 seconds)
From: Larry Page [*********@google.com]
To: James Damore [***********@hotmail.com]
cc: [[email protected]]
Subject: Re: “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”

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