Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE
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@wendysiegelman
Wendy Siegelman
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The war inside Palantir: Data-mining firm's ties to ICE under attack by employees - but Palantir's leaders Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are doubling down on controversial work with the U.S. government, by @dmac1 @lizzadwoskin https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@dmac1
Doug MacMillan
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@washingtonpost @lizzadwoskin The company's growing rhetoric against Google, which dropped a Pentagon partnership a year ago, appears to illustrate how Karp thinks: Government contracts take priority over employee concerns https://twitter.com/...
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@jeffbercovici
Jeff Bercovici
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In light of what was happening inside his company when Peter Thiel wrote that NYT op-Ed about tech patriotism, letting him publish it with zero disclosures looks especially egregious. You got played bad @nytopinion https://twitter.com/...
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@mattzeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin
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The Post Palantir story provides enough information and context so that that if someone wanted to read Peter Thiel's 2016-and-beyond political interventions (Trump donations, Google op-ed, etc) as “drumming up business for Palantir and Anduril,” one could https://www.washingtonpo…
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@rmac18
Ryan Mac
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In the Bloomberg interview, there was no pushback when Palantir CEO Karp said his co gets no special treatment from the Trump admin because of Chairman Peter Thiel. That's false. Look at which much smaller tech co attended a Dec '16 Trump tower meeting. https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@rmac18
Ryan Mac
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I like how Palantir knew a hard story was coming in the Washington Post and tried to front run by sending its CEO to a friendly interview with Bloomberg. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@rmac18
Ryan Mac
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I want to be responsible for answering difficult questions, but I also will not take your questions. Thank you. https://twitter.com/...