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Don't write articles about or cover this person. He's super-clueless. Giving him attention will make you stupider.

Also, if he did this, he should be fired out of a cannon. Into the sun.

Oh look, he got fired from Facebook for "misogyny".

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It's not clear whether any of this even happened. He seems to be part of the grift of posting troll youtube videos.

The headline is particularly suspicious - had any of these hypothetical women mentioned this to anyone it would have been an immediate scandal of mammoth proportions.

He's probably lying for attention. Or, charitably, the news is misinterpreting him on purpose for some reason. I don't feel like investigating to find out which.

I was in a meeting where a complaint was voiced that people being fired for sexual harassment often end up going to another tech company, there's no "this is why they're gone" signal, & ironically this often helps their career because in tech it's good to move companies every few years

I've stumbled across this person's YouTube videos before. For some reason, I always assumed he was a troll with how much he leans into "ex-Google tech lead".

It's really hard to tell; there was fairly earnest and genuine stuff mixed in with a lot of very dry humour. He always came off as kind of entitled, for sure, and at some point the 'jokes' started to come off as extremely poor taste. The trajectory of tech troll to weird financial/personal life advice to wife leaving him to full on reactionary along with his dealings with the AlgoExpert guy suggest there was always some level of seriousness and possibly mental illness in the mix.

> Oh look, he got fired from Facebook for "misogyny".

And "allegedly". It seems there was some evidence this was fabricated

Dude is a massive attention-seeker, let's not give it to him

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