This "fair is not the default" document was a bombshell internal Google document which laid out the justification for the "machine learning fairness" project which rebiased the Google Search results, as well as YouTube and Google News.
Here is the direct pdf link.
"Fair is not the default" is an internal Google document that laid out the justification for the "Machine Learning Fairness" project, which re-biased the results of Google Search, YouTube and Google News. Its "People are Programmed" slide shows how Google views its users. The same slide appears in the Machine Learning and Diversity Summit deck.
Quoted verbatim from the "RMI Diversity Summit" slide deck, which carries the same "People are programmed" slide:
Training data are harvested. Algorithms are programmed. Media classified, filtered, aggregated or generated. People are programmed.
"Generalized filter bubble"
Portrayal matters. In CS, representation in mainstream media mattered. Nowadays Google = mainstream media.
This page is part of the Google Leaks: 950+ pages of internal Google documents that Zach Vorhies, a Senior Software Engineer at Google and YouTube for 8.5 years, took with him when he resigned from Google in June 2019. He delivered them to the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice in August 2019 and released them to the public through Project Veritas. The documents describe, in Google's own words, how Google defined "fake news", built its "Machine Learning Fairness" system and kept blacklists across Google Search, YouTube and Google News. He tells the full story in his book Google Leaks: An Expose of Big Tech Censorship (Skyhorse Publishing).
Read the full archive on the Google Leaks page, the dated sequence of events in the timeline, and who Zach Vorhies is on the about page.