My researcher acquaintances at industry labs at IBM, Microsoft, HP, Xerox, ATT, Bell, DEC, Compaq, etc. never have had to have their papers reviewed internally before submitting them to conferences or journals. What's up with Google?
(We have a publication approval process, but its purpose is to prevent IP leaks and maybe shield liability, not uphold scientific rigour standards)
They know they have a bubbling ethics problem and they've screwed over their best chance to do anything other than completely fuck it up.
In history, this will be a wtf double facepalm moment.
https://twitter.com/le_roux_nicolas/status/13346019609729064...