Organizing against your employer is hard, but Google workers have taken up the charge for years. After embracing dissenting views and outspokenness from its employees for so long, it seems as though Google may be growing tired of internal protests. Recently, Google updated its guidelines to warn employees against holding political debates and improperly disclosing company information. A section of the new guidelines say:   “While sharing information and ideas with colleagues helps build community, disrupting the workday to have a raging debate over politics or the latest news story does not. Our primary responsibility is to do the work we’ve each been hired to do, not to spend working time on debates about non-work topics.”   The guidelines also urged employees to respect their fellow “Googlers.” “Don’t troll, name call, or engage in ad hominem attacks,” the new guidelines went on to add. “Be respectful in your comments about (and to) your fellow Googlers.” These new guidelines come...

Conspiracy videos make up their own niche section of YouTube and have long been noted as potentially promoting “harmful” misinformation.  In a move to clean up the site, YouTube says it will no longer recommend conspiracy videos to users. In a Jan. 25 blog post , YouTube wrote, “We’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.” Guillaume Chaslot, a former engineer for Google, YouTube’s parent company, called the move a “historic victory” . In a thread of tweets, Chaslot said, “It’s only the beginning of a more humane technology. Technology that empowers all of us, instead of deceiving the most vulnerable.” The affected videos will be those YouTube identifies as coming close to violating its community guidelines , without actually crossing that line. According...