How Google protected Andy Rubin

How Google protected Andy Rubin is cited as an investigation of Google’s handling of Andy Rubin. The book identifies the report but does not describe its evidence, the decisions it examined, or its specific findings; its significance here is therefore limited to the subject announced by its title and its place among references to contemporary reporting.

The Report in the Book

The citation appears among references to recent news coverage, alongside reporting on McDonald’s workers’ #MeToo protests and allegations involving the chairman of CBS. That grouping locates the Google investigation within a wider record of institutional scrutiny, without claiming that the cases shared the same circumstances or outcomes.

Institutional Accountability

The report’s title frames its subject as Google’s protection of Andy Rubin. In the context of a book that also brings together women with sharply different experiences of speaking publicly—including a low-wage McDonald’s worker and women considering whether to tell their stories—the citation points toward the broader question of how organizations respond when misconduct is reported. The text does not supply enough detail to characterize Google’s conduct or the report’s conclusions further.

Scope of the Reference

The book gives the report’s authors, Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner, its title, publication date of October 25, 2018, and its publication in The New York Times. It does not summarize the investigation. The distinction matters: the citation signals that the reporting belongs to the book’s landscape of post-#MeToo accountability, while leaving the report’s particulars to the original article.