Understanding Silicon Valley’s Newfound Activism

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a protest on the Google campus in Mountain View. Google employees were protesting President Trump's executive order banning people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Photo by Queena Sook Kim/KQED

By Queena Sook Kim and Liz Gannes, KQED News Fix

Silicon Valley may want to change the world, but traditionally it has stayed out of the realm of politics to do it. So how to explain the sudden explosion of political protest against President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order on immigration?

Tony Xu’s metamorphosis provides one answer. Xu is the co-founder of the food delivery startup DoorDash, which is one of the tech companies that signed onto the immigration amicus brief.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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