Google’s Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents
"...Studying employment websites and databases, MintPress has ascertained that
the Silicon Valley giant has recently hired dozens of professionals from the
Central Intelligence Agency in recent years. Moreover, an inordinate number of
these recruits work in highly politically sensitive fields, wielding
considerable control over how its products work and what the world sees on its
screens and in its search results.
Chief amongst these is the trust and safety department, whose staff, in the words
of then Google trust and safety vice president Kristie Canegallo, “[d]ecide
what content is allowed on our platform” – in other words, setting the rules of
the internet, determining what billions see and what they do not see. Before
Google, Canegallo had been President Obama’s Deputy White House Chief of Staff
for Implementation and is currently Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland
Security.
Many of the team helping Canegallo make calls on what content should be allowed
in Google searches and on platforms like YouTube were former CIA employees. For
example:
Jacqueline Lopour spent more than ten years at the CIA, where she served as “a
leading U.S. Government expert on security challenges in South Asia and the
Middle East and the go-to writer of quickly needed papers for the U.S.
President.” She joined Google in 2017 and is currently a senior intelligence
collection and trust and safety manager.
...Jeff Lazarus was an economic and political analyst for the CIA. In 2017, he was
hired as a policy advisor for trust and safety at Google, where he worked on
suppressing “extremist content.” He moved to Apple in 2021.
Ryan Fugit spent eight years as a CIA officer. Then, in 2019, Google convinced him
to leave and become a senior manager of trust and safety...
Bryan Weisbard led teams that adjudicated “the most sensitive YouTube trust and
safety escalations globally” and “enforced” the most “urgent and highest
priority” misinformation and sensitive content decisions. Between 2006 and 2010,
he was an intelligence officer with the CIA.
...The problem with former CIA agents becoming the arbiters of what is true and
what is false and what should be promoted and what should be deleted is that
they cut their teeth at a notorious organization whose job it was to inject lies
and false information into the public discourse to further the goals of the
national security state. John Stockwell, former head of a CIA task force,
explained on camera how his organization infiltrated media departments the world
over, created fake newspapers and news agencies, and planted fake news about
Washington’s enemies. “I had propagandists all over the world,” he said, adding,
We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists [to the
media]… We ran [faked] photographs that made almost every newspaper in the
country… We didn’t know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was
pure, raw, false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies
for breakfast.”
This continues to this day...
Mike Pompeo, former director of the CIA, admitted as much in a talk he gave in
2019... We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses [on] it!
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