Summary of Allum Bokhari's #DELETED

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Get the Summary of Allum Bokhari's #DELETED in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Journalist Allum Bokhari has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. He has discovered a dark plot to seize control of the flow of information, and utilize that power to its full extent - to censor, manipulate, and ultimately sway the outcome of democratic elections.

His network of whistleblowers inside Google, Facebook and other companies explain how the tech giants now see themselves as "good censors," benevolent commissars controlling the information we receive to "protect" us from "dangerous" speech. They reveal secret methods to covertly manipulate online information without us ever being aware of it, explaining how tech companies can use big data to target undecided voters. They lift the lid on a plot four years in the making - a plot to use the power of technology to stop Donald Trump's re-election.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638154761

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Insights from Prologue

#1

In this day and age, censorship is taking over all forms of media. So much so that it even silences the ones it is meant to protect, with artificial intelligence (AI) systems failing to detect speech that is harming minorities.

#2

Silicon Valley in California, the original hub of technology, is the originator of AI systems that clearly do not understand context yet control most of the censorship in popular social media.

#3

Big Tech companies tend to display favoritism, mostly among celebrities, politicians, and corporate journalists.

#4

Corporations control the largest platforms on the web and the means of competing with them, which stifles a free-market economy.

#5

Tech monopolies have control over our personal information, our political viewpoints, our attention, and our content.

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In November 2016, the US presidential election results shook Google employees. Company cofounder Sergey Brin, an immigrant and refugee, viewed Donald Trump’s victory as offensive and extremist. He went so far as to suggest intervening in search results to tackle this extremism.

#2

Google employees from then on strived to ensure that Trump’s movement became nothing