The sad part is that social media, like always, focus on her race rather than the details. Here's an example tweet from Jeremy Howard, a known researcher (114K followers) from fast.ai:
"Whatever else you think of Google, you gotta admit their crisis PR response is staggeringly incompetent.
The day they were found to have illegally spied on and terminated activists - they picked that day to fire their top AI ethics expert (a black woman)."
He completely ignores the most important thing - why she got fired. He calls Google PR incompetent because they fired a famous black woman researcher after what happened. You see, people expect that Google would check their employees' skin color and gender before they decide to fire them. The content is not important.
Where I come from, behavior like this is interpreted as - at worst - iconoclastic when exhibit by white, male leaders. I have found that it is rewarded more often than not when it happens in places I have worked at in the past.
Also, just read some of her Twitter mentions - the fanboy harassment is real.