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Google faces renewed battles in labor and antitrust in 2021
The search giant will have to deal with threats both inside and outside of the company. Listen - 05:38
Google employees walked out of their offices in protest in 2018. James Martin/CNET
On a single day earlier this month, a pair of controversies began to take shape at Google.
On Dec. 2, a federal agency filed a complaint against the search giant after it fired two workers who had spoken out against the company last year. Later that night, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher took to Twitter to say Google had abruptly fired her over a research paper she co-authored that criticized the company s AI systems. Both incidents riled up the search giant s current and former employees.