How to check us

Do not take our word for it. Take the receipt.

We say we stand against extraction. This page is not a place to admire that line. It is a place to test it. Here is the worked example, here is the public filing it comes from, and here is the tool that lets you follow it yourself.

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Start with the claim, not the company
We say we stand against extraction. That is a claim, and a claim you cannot check is just a slogan. So we hand you the way to check it before we ask you to believe it.
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Open the public filing
The numbers below live in a document anyone can read: a company's own filing with the SEC. We did not gather them in private. You can pull the same page we did.
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Follow the number to its effect
A single accounting choice moves reported income by billions. We show the choice, the size, and where it lands, so the line from cause to effect is yours to trace, not ours to assert.
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Open the Explorer and check us
The live Evidence Explorer holds the trail in full. Open it, follow a claim to its source, and decide for yourself whether it holds.

A worked example

One small change, billions in motion.

In 2023, Alphabet changed how long it expects its servers to last for accounting purposes, from four years to six. A longer life means each year carries less depreciation. Less depreciation means more reported income. The change is real, it is disclosed, and the size of it is plain.

4 to 6 years

Server depreciation schedule, changed in 2023.

~$3 billion

Lift to reported income from the change.

~$7.8 billion

Drop in annual depreciation expense.

None of these figures are ours to invent. They are traceable to the company's own filing with the SEC. That is the point of a receipt: you do not have to trust the person holding it, because you can read it yourself.

The frame

No bad people. A bad system working exactly as designed.

The accounting change was lawful. Someone followed the rules and did their job well. That is the hard part to sit with: nobody had to be a villain for billions to move away from the people who do the work. This is not a story about bad actors. It is a story about a system doing precisely what it was built to do.

We use the word extraction, not corruption, on purpose. Corruption suggests a few people broke the rules. Extraction is what happens when the rules themselves quietly route value upward. What is manufactured can be dismantled, and the first step to dismantling it is letting you see it clearly.

The trail is open. Walk it.

Check it yourself

Open the Evidence Explorer.

The Evidence Explorer holds this example and others in full, each claim linked to the source it came from. Open it, pick a claim, and follow it to the filing. If it does not hold, you will know, and so will we.

Open the Evidence Explorer

What this page is

A way to check a claim we make about ourselves. A pointer to a public record. An invitation to follow the line yourself and disagree if it does not hold.

What this page is not

A claim that our defiance is earned, or that anyone here is the hero. The hero is the person doing the work, and the test is whether the receipt holds. Read it. Try to break it.

If we stand against extraction, you should be able to check.

So we built it so you can. Read more of the standard we hold ourselves to, or begin with one honest hour.

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