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controversy surrounding diversity at Google continues to grow on Thursday the search giant canceled an all-hands meeting set up for employees to discuss issues of diversity at the company the 11th hour cancellation by Google CEO sundar Pichai came as staff raised concerns about their safety after proposed questions for the town hall meeting will leaked online in a memo to staff obtained by recode Petraeus said Google had hoped to have a frank open discussion but when proposed questions from specific employees started appearing online staff wrote to him concerned about their safety and worried that they may be outed for publicly asking questions in the Town Hall the meeting comes amidst a diversity backlash at the company after Google fired one of its engineers James d'amour for pinning a 10 page memo titled Google's ideological echo chamber in the note demo argued a gender gap exists at Google not because of systemic sexism but because of biological differences between men and women the memo soon went viral sparking outrage amongst Google's employees and the wider tech community Google moved quickly to fire demo but now the former engineer says he will likely be pursuing legal action a Twitter account under demos name with the handle fired for truth has popped up online gaining more than 10,000 followers while supporters have also set up a fundraising page to help demo fight Google the page has already reached $37,000 of its 60,000 dollar goal I'm Claire Reilly for Senate and for more coverage head to cnn.com