Speaker 1: Folks, there's a lawsuit in California, San Mateo County Superior Court.
Speaker 1: It alleges that YouTube has set minority hiring quotas. The
Speaker 1: suits filed by somebody named Arn Wilburg, a YouTube recruiter
Speaker 1: who also worked for YouTube's parent company Google Now. Wilburg
Speaker 1: claims that last spring, YouTube recruiters were instructed to only
Speaker 1: interview female, black, or Hispanic applicants. The suit also says
Speaker 1: the company told recruiters to purge the applications of anybody
Speaker 1: not fitting those categories. Wilburg, a white male, says he
Speaker 1: complained and when he was ignored, he went to Google
Speaker 1: management and shortly after that they fired him. Google says
Speaker 1: this is rubbish, that they don't use identity to hire,
Speaker 1: just merit now. According to the Wall Street Journal, sixty
Speaker 1: percent of Google's employees are men, white, and Asian guy's
Speaker 1: account for nine of the Google staff, and the tech
Speaker 1: industry has had a big push to diversify. The journal
Speaker 1: also reports that people familiar with Google and YouTube hiring
Speaker 1: practices corroborate some of the lawsuits allegations, including the hiring
Speaker 1: freeze on white and Asian guys and YouTube's use of
Speaker 1: racial quotas. The journal says the lawsuit threatens to ignite
Speaker 1: simmering controversy about Silicon Valleys politics and whether it's predominantly
Speaker 1: liberal ideology is affecting how companies operate. That's controversial. Is
Speaker 1: there anybody anywhere who thinks liberal ideology has not infected
Speaker 1: and corrupted Silicon Valley h