{"id":31042,"date":"2023-03-05T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/google-covertly-hires-law-firm-to-examine-its-civil-rights-policies"},"modified":"2023-03-06T04:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T04:42:16","slug":"google-covertly-hires-law-firm-to-examine-its-civil-rights-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/google-covertly-hires-law-firm-to-examine-its-civil-rights-policies","title":{"rendered":"Google Covertly Hires Law Firm to Examine Its Civil Rights Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Google has quietly hired a law firm to examine the company\u2019s diversity, inclusion and moderation policies and how they can affect marginalized communities, the Washington Post reported.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Google hired the law firm WilmerHale, which previously represented the cloud computing company Orbitera in 2016 and assisted the software firm Stackdriver in 2014, the report said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the law firm is representing Twitter in a case before the US Supreme Court on whether social media companies, including YouTube, can be held liable for terrorist content on their platforms, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers have urged Google to audit its products and policies since 2021, when US Senator Cory Booker, along with four other Senate Democrats, sent a letter to the company\u2019s executives to hire an auditor to provide recommendations to make the company and its products safer for Black people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. 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