The dark side of technology ... The Guardian reveals the mysteries of Silicon Valley

Writer Julia Carey Wong - in an opinion piece published by the British Guardian - says that since the newspaper opened its office on America's West Coast in 2016, she has uncovered the truth about how tech companies are reshaping society and democracy.

She adds that when Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress in October, Facebook founder and CEO faced scathing questions against the backdrop of his decision to absolve politicians from preventing advertisers from promoting false allegations, or in other words his decision to allow politicians to spend money spreading false advertising.

On this, Zuckerberg - Congresswoman Rachida Tlaib - said this is not about helping politicians, but rather about making sure that people can see for themselves what politicians really say.

The author stated that, since the 2016 elections, Facebook allowed candidates to acquire the “dark ads” that only a narrow target audience of voters could see, as Facebook promised to provide greater transparency by creating a political archive of ads.

Last week alone, the campaign to re-elect incumbent President Donald Trump displayed more than 16,000 different advertisements on Facebook. And this is only one week, for only one candidate, and on Facebook only, not to mention the other sites, which means that at any moment, the Trump campaign will include between a thousand and five thousand different ads that all display simultaneously.

It should be noted that many of these ads are simple formulas that revolve around one topic, targeting narrow segments of the electorate in opaque ways.

The lack of transparency in some respects reveals a breach of trust in Zuckerberg's allegations, who is keen to confirm that Facebook supports the democratic process by allowing people to "see what politicians say."

The author noted that the detection of deception and distortion in Silicon Valley has become a tradition of the American branch of the Guardian since it opened its office on the West Coast, where journalists have been working with additional times to expose the gaps between the discourse that adopts the concept of altruism in the technology industry, and the fact that lies behind how technology companies re- Community formation.

She added that the Guardian this year revealed allegations of theft of wages by one of the wealthiest companies in the world, as well as how Amazon works with police departments to establish a large-scale monitoring system.

In addition, the Guardian has made communication platforms bear the responsibility of amplifying misinformation against the use of the vaccine, and reports have been provided that it was orchestrated by Congressman Adam Schiff.

The newspaper itself also pursued extremism and hatred from the dark corners of the Internet to the "clean" world of Facebook. She reported the harsh reality of Uber drivers living in their cars, while the founders fled with huge sums. It also showed how the "impact on children" method enabled them to be used at work at an early age.

The writer indicated that by 2020 the Guardian is preparing to track misinformation and digital campaigns with critical elections related to US policy.