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Hundreds of Google employees attached their signatures to a Medium postcalling on the company to squash Project Dragonfly. Project...Dragonfly...? It's the codename for a censored search engine Google's reportedly working on for use in China. Remember, Google pulled out of China in 2010 and hasn't been back since. Here's why employees are concerned: Dragonfly could hypothetically enable China to polish its act as your Big Brother, and not the kind that gives you a wedgie—we're talking state surveillance. More from the employee-backed letter... "Providing the Chinese government with ready access to user data...would make Google complicit in oppression and human rights abuses." "Dragonfly would also enable censorship and government-directed disinformation, and destabilize the ground truth on which popular deliberation and dissent rely." FWIW, Google told NPR it isn't close to launching a search product in China. Zoom out: From the recent walkout to protest workplace issues to the outcry over the company's involvement in a Pentagon drone program, Google employees have shown a level of public dissent not seen anywhere else in Big Tech.

Amazon (+0.01%) said Cyber Monday was its biggest shopping day ever in terms of the number of products sold globally.

Phrase #1: A picture is worth 1,000 words. Phrase #2: An ex-employee is worth 2,589. Let's start with the one you're familiar with. Facebook (-1.01%) CEO Mark Zuckerberg got trolled by lawmakers from Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Brazil, Ireland, Latvia, Argentina, and Singapore. And for a little extra burn? They did it on Twitter. Their beef? Zuck (again) failed to show up when summoned by lawmakers to answer questions regarding Facebook's strategy for protecting user data and privacy. And now to Phrase #2: A former Facebook employee named Mark Luckie claimed the social media company has a "black person problem" in a 2,589-word post. He said he circulated the post to Facebook's employees across the globe just before he stopped working there earlier this month. "In some buildings, there are more 'Black Lives Matter' posters than there are actual black people. Facebook can't claim that it is connecting communities if those communities aren't represented proportionately in its staffing," Luckie said. Zoom out: 3.5% of Facebook's U.S. employees are black, per its latest diversity report. Morning Brew

President Trump said he told GM it's "playing around with the wrong person." Yesterday, Trump demonstrated what being that "wrong person" could mean. If it becomes reality (a huge "if"), Trump's threat to cut electric vehicle subsidies could spell trouble for GM. That's because, as of right now, consumers who buy fully electric vehicles (like GM's Chevy Bolt) are eligible for a federal tax credit of $7,500 toward the vehicle. But...that credit begins to phase out after an automaker sells 200,000 eligible electric cars. Tesla already hit that 200,000 mark, and GM was less than 4,000 vehicles away from the cap as of Q3. Both Tesla and GM have pressed lawmakers to raise the 200,000-car cap and allow for more tax credits, which incentivize prospective car buyers to go electric. Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate...but neither chamber has passed a measure.

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Gene editing is a way to rewrite DNA, the code of life, to try to supply a missing gene that is needed or disable one that is causing problems. It has only recently been tried in adults to treat serious diseases. Editing eggs, sperm or embryos is different, because it makes permanent changes that can pass to future generations. Its risks are unknown, and leading scientists have called for a moratorium on its use except in lab studies until more is learned.

A Chinese researcher claimed to have helped make the world's first genetically edited babies, and the scientific community responded with shock and alarm.

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed open to the idea of allowing iPhone users to proceed with an antitrust suit against Apple. At question here is whether the company's App Store holds an illegal monopoly.

Feels like up until today, there's been a red arrow tattooed next to "OIL" in the Brew's markets section for weeks—crude prices did slump to their lowest in more than a year on Friday. But is that good? Or bad? In one corner, the WSJ: Their thinking? It's not 2014-2016 anymore. Follow us, here...A couple years back, supply ballooned (h/t shale production), prices fell, and investment dried up. Places like Texas and North Dakota suffered job losses, which in turn soured consumer spending. That was tough on the economy. But that's not the case with this price drop...because 1) the oil industry now has a better handle on shale production 2) it reps a smaller share of capital spending in the economy and 3) it employs far fewer people. So feel free to enjoy the low prices at the pump without worrying about the economy caving in. In the other corner, NPR: Their thinking? A drop in oil prices is one thing (it's been a boom-and-bust industry since the first well was drilled in 1859)...but a drop in oil prices plusa stock market decline? That could signal global economic softening. It could also ratchet up tensions ahead of December's OPEC meeting, when production cuts will be in the spotlight.

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