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Fellowship of Friends is a “cult-like religious sect” that infiltrated Google.
The group has gained a powerful position in the tech giant and has started hiring more members.
A former employee identified as Kevin Lloyd is suing over the situation.
Once again Google is in the eye of the hurricane, since it has recently been accused of employing a large number of people belonging to an unusual group or “religious cult” in California, United States.
According to data from Statista, the Alphabet company this last year employed more than 156 thousand people, which represents an increase of more than 21 thousand workers compared to 2020.
Given these data, Google has been accused of employing the Community of Friends, which is a group that believes that most of us live in a state of “waking dream”.
According to the New York Times, Fellowship of Friends is a “cult-like religious sect” that infiltrated Google.
Also,. the aforementioned reports dictate that this group has gained a powerful position in the tech giant and has started hiring more members of the “cult-like sect”, for years.
Legal claim against Google for hiring
According to the report, a former employee identified as Kevin Lloyd is suing over the situation. “Once you realize this, you become responsible”said the man in the middle.
Also in the lawsuit, he states that he was not promoted during his stay at Google, because he was not a member of the Fellowship of Friends. He adds that it’s not clear how many Google employees are actually Fellowship members.
The group, which is also known as Living Presence and Fourth Way School, has faced multiple damning accusations in the past and the new lawsuit accuses him of having a history of sex trafficking.
Faced with these accusations, the media tried to ask Google for a position, to obtain comments and a spokesman asserted that: “We have long-standing vendor and employee policies to prevent discrimination and conflicts of interest, and we take them seriously.”
“It is illegal to ask about the religious affiliations of those who work for us or our suppliers, but we will, of course, thoroughly investigate these allegations for wrongdoing or improper hiring practices. If we find evidence of policy violations, we will take action. We investigated the concerns Mr. Lloyd raised in his lawsuit and confirmed that his vendor assignment was terminated due to well-documented performance issues,” he maintained.
Google was also on the digital pulse this week after it emerged that an engineer identified as Blake Lemoine had been suspended after saying the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient, basing the claim on his Christian faith. .
As mentioned by the tech company, the 41-year-old employee was placed on paid leave in early June after he posted excerpts from a conversation with the company’s LaMDA chatbot, which he said showed the AI had become intelligent.
After his suspension, the employee assured that his statements about LaMDA come from his experience as a “Christian priest” and accuses Google of religious discrimination.
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