Palantir's Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifestos, and more
It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
Ars Technica Makena Kelly
Related Coverage
- The tensions behind Palantir's efforts to transform English healthcare Financial Times
- Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You're One of the Baddies Gizmodo · Matt Novak
- “Descent”, this is pretty funny. — Kids, if you have a bunch of feelings but keep showing up and doing the work the only thing that's changed is that now the company knows you'll do the work even if you hate yourself for doing it. — https://arstechnica.com/... @mhoye@cosocial.ca
- Protests matter. — These companies have PEOPLE in them. People who have to tell their dates or in laws where they work. People who have to see protests outside the office window. — Denver activists ran #Palantir out of the city and then handed their playbook to the activists in Miami, where Palantir moved. … @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social · Scary Austin
- Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism” Ars OpenForum
- Palantir Wants To Be The Government The Nerd Reich · Gil Duran
- Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract The Guardian · Robert Booth
Discussion
-
@micyoung75
Mike Young
on x
At an internal AMA, Palantir's own privacy and civil liberties employee said a “sufficiently malicious customer is basically impossible to prevent” - only controllable through auditing after the fact. That is the answer the company gave its own employees about the limits of its …
-
@micyoung75
Mike Young
on x
@arstechnica The original Palantir mission: prevent terrorism without eroding civil liberties. The current internal assessment from their own privacy team: a malicious customer cannot be stopped in real time - only audited afterward. ICE tracking. An elementary school. A seven-da…
-
@jasonbassler1
Jason Bassler
on x
⚠️ Past 90 Days of Reporting on Palantir: -Paid $0 in taxes in 2025 -Photographed at Bilderberg -Former exec blew the whistle -Linked to an airstrike killing 170 kids -Epstein called Peter Thiel a “great friend” -Employees asking if “they're the bad guys” Just your average
-
@kevin_shipp
Kevin Shipp
on x
Eh heh, Palantir employees are required to sign a secrecy agreement blocking them from ever talking about what they do (for the CIA, FBI, NSA). https://share.google/...
-
@mrewanmorrison
Ewan Morrison
on x
Don't worry Palantir employees - that nagging sense that you're complicit in acts of evil can be managed away by compartmentalisation, distraction & postponement of the confrontation with the truth. You can also tell yourself you're in the snooping & killing business for the cash…
-
Keith Fitzgerald
Keith Fitzgerald
on linkedin
NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys — Interviews with current and former Palantir employees …
-
John Grant
John Grant
on linkedin
Yes. Palantirians genuinely wrestle with the ethics of what we do. And Palantir's leadership gives us the space to have those discussions. …
-
@nedwilcox
Ned Wilcox
on bluesky
Think Stasi, but with modern technology: — www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
on bluesky
Palantir employees having debates on whether they're enabling fascism is like Ben & Jerry's employees wondering if they're sell sweet treats. — Even their privacy & civil liberties staff concede that “a sufficiently malicious customer is, like, basically impossible to prevent a…
-
@vortexegg.com
@vortexegg.com
on bluesky
It's... not precisely ironic, but fitting that for years “high-decoupling” was promoted in tech culture as being the laudable attitude or cognitive trait for the model high performing tech worker. The ability to completely isolate whatever technical work you're doing from percei…
-
@joncooper-us
Jon Cooper
on bluesky
Palantir employees are talking about the company's “descent into fascism.” — Slack messages, and interviews with current and former workers, paint a picture of a company in turmoil.
-
r/LateStageCapitalism
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/france
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/TeamNightShift
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/ThielWatch
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/BetterOffline
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”: Are we the baddies?
-
r/TrueAnon
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/YarvinConspiracy
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism” - Ars Technica
-
r/behindthebastards
r
on reddit
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
-
r/EatTheRich
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/myaibusiness
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
r/ArtificialInteligence
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
@chrisharihar
Chris Harihar
on x
This is what anyone should read if they're trying to understand how sophisticated clipping works and why it's fascinating and frightening as a form of marketing. https://www.forbes.com/... [image]
-
@makenakelly
Makena Kelly
on bluesky
SCOOP: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers. — More on the internal dissent growing inside the company: — wired.com/story/palantir-employees- are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the- …
-
@histoftech
Mar Hicks
on bluesky
They're WONDERING? — www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
@brbarrett
Brian Barrett
on bluesky
are_we_the_baddies.gif from @makenakelly.bsky.social
-
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
on bluesky
Fellas, did you think naming the company after the evil all-seeing orb was ironic?
-
@couts
Andrew Couts
on bluesky
NEW: Palantir employees are now questioning the ethics of working for a company that has become increasingly intertwined with the machinations of the second Trump administration. @makenakelly.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
@davidgilbert
David Gilbert
on bluesky
Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys — Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social — www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
@makenakelly
Makena Kelly
on bluesky
Here's the internal reaction to Palantir's 22-point manifesto earlier this week. — “It's like we taped a ‘kick me’ sign on our own backs... I hope no one who decided to put this out is surprised that we are, in fact, getting kicked.” — www.wired.com/story/palant... [embedded…
-
@beanjammin
Ben Holt
on bluesky
This seems to be coming awfully late. www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
@leahfeiger
Leah Feiger
on bluesky
NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys — Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by @wired.com, suggest a workforce in turmoil. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
-
@nancylevinestearns
Nancy Levine Stearns
on bluesky
🔥 SCOOP from WIRED: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers. — More on the internal dissent growing inside the company: — @wired.com — www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
r/LabourUK
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism”
-
@mims
Christopher Mims
on bluesky
“We were supposed to be the ones who were preventing a lot of these abuses,” said a former Palantir employee. “We seem to be enabling them.” — www.wired.com/story/palant...
-
r/LouisRossmann
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism” | Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
-
r/siliconvalley
r
on reddit
Palantir employees are talking about company's “descent into fascism.”