How to Write a Survey Paper for a Google Research Conference in October, 2021

In a month, we put together this paper and that was possible because it actually wasn't just the two of us writing it or the four named authors. And then in late November out of nowhere from my perspective, and I just said that in telling the story, I've not been funded by Google. But the Google co-authors were told to either retract their paper or take their names off of it. They weren't offered a chance to sort of discuss what might need to be changed about the paper. It was just retracted or take your names off ofIt. This is not an okay way to treat a researcher who was hired to do this research, right? This was literally her job