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Google Leaks

A Whistleblower's ExposΓ© of Big Tech Censorship
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Google Leaks by Kent Heckenlively and Zach Vorhies explores the inner workings of Google through the eyes of a whistleblower. The book delves into the alleged impacts of the company's policies on information control and public perception. It combines elements of personal narrative with investigative insight into the tech giant's operations.
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Google Leaks

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A Story of Big Tech Censorship and Bias and the Fight to Save Our Country

The madness of Google's attempt to mould our reality into a version dictated by their corporate values has never been portrayed better than in this chilling account by Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies. As a senior engineer, Zach watched in horror from the inside as the 2016 election of Donald Trump drove Google into a frenzy of censorship and political manipulation. The American ideal of an honest, hard-fought battle of ideasβ€”when the contest is over, shaking hands and working together to solve problemsβ€”was replaced by a different, darker ethic alien to this country's history, as waves of censorship destroyed free speech and entire market sectors.

Working with New York Times bestselling author Kent Heckenlively (Plague of Corruption), Vorhies and Heckenlively weave a tale of a tech industry once beloved by its central figure for its innovation and original thinking, turned into a terrifying "woke-church" of censorship and political intolerance. For Zach, an intuitive counter-thinker, brought up on the dystopian futures of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Ray Bradbury, it was clear that Google was attempting nothing less than a seamless rewriting of the operating code of reality in which many would not be allowed to participate.

Using Google's own internal search engine, Zach discovered their real "AI-Censorship" system called "Machine Learning Fairness," which he claims is a merging of critical race theory and AI that was secretly released on their users of search, news, and YouTube. He collected and released 950 pages of these documents to the Department of Justice and to the public in the summer of 2019 through Project Veritas with James O'Keefe, which quickly became their most popular whistleblower story and started a trend of big whistleblowing.

From Google rewriting their news algorithms to target Trump to using human tragedy emergencies to inject permanent blacklists, Zach and Kent provide a "you are there" perspective on how Google turned to the dark side to seize power. They finish by laying out a solution to fight censorship. Read Google Leaks if you care to know how Google tries to manipulate, censor, and downrank the voice of its users.

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The book, co-authored by Kent Heckenlively and Zach Vorhies, presents a critical perspective on Google's influence over global information. Reviews highlight the authors' courage in exposing what they perceive as the company's dangerous monopoly and manipulation of reality. Vorhies is praised for his bravery in revealing internal documents, and the book is seen by some as a necessary read to understand the potential risks posed by Big Tech.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510767362

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Illustration: 16 color illustrations in insert

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Zach Vorhies .

Kent Heckenlively, JD, is an attorney, science teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. He lives in Northern California with his wife, Linda, and they have two children, Jacqueline and Ben.

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