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My opinion:

A hard working researcher had the the flaw of not being able to produtivly work with some people. Some of those people were good and some of those people were bad.

At some point, some of those people decided that the cost of drama exceeded the value the work.

Much more drama ensued.

She had toxic relationship with her employer (google). She wrote a paper about Google's deep learning nlp google considered it a bad publicity. They asked her to include references for her claim. she gave precondition. if precondition is not met she would resign.

google took that line immediately and told her "your resignation is accepted".

that's the whole story.

Differences of opinion on to-be published work, focusing (I believe) on bias in large-scale language models. Gebru was told to retract which was unacceptable, posed an ultimatum to Google (who accepted, immediately without negotiation) leading to her immediate termination.