In a Medium post published Thursday, Ross LaJeunesse, who spent 11 years at Google before leaving the company in April 2019, claimed he was boxed out as the company “[chased] bigger profits and an even higher stock price” in markets clouded with human rights violations like China and Saudi Arabia. (The Logic)

Talking point: LaJeunesse, who has launched a campaign to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, said he was re-organized out of a job, a claim that Google denies. His criticisms follow those of Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, who wrote an account of the tech giant’s fraught corporate culture in December 2019. The same month, a group of former employees filed a federal complaint against Google, alleging the company fired them after they organized a protest of the construction of a censored Chinese search engine—an issue LaJeunesse said he was “sidelined” in discussions about. The company has said it is scaling back its all-hands TGIF meetings, which LaJeunesse said involved racist, sexist and homophobic bullying. “I was one of the few old-timers around who remembered what Google used to be,” he said. “The company changed around me.”