Google \u2013 one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world \u2013 is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying employment websites and databases, MintPress<\/i> has ascertained that the Silicon Valley giant has 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.<\/p>\n
Chief amongst these is the trust and safety department, whose staff, in the words<\/a> of then Google trust and safety vice president Kristie Canegallo, \u201c[d]ecide what content is allowed on our platform\u201d \u2013 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\u2019s Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation and is currently Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n