A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein

In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Thiel’s connections.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
    482·
    2 months ago

    I find this very hard to believe, he’s such a good boy and helps grannies cross the street.

    I think it’s time we send some F-16s to fire missiles at Chinese weather balloons, our real enemies.

    • OozingPositron@feddit.clEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      It’s worse, they sent an F-22 to shoot a 400k USD missile, I bet the balloon’s radar never saw it coming!

      • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        It’s way worse, shooting weather balloons make them sound like angels.

        https://investigate.info/company/palantir

        They provide police state technology currently used by ICE to target immigrants and several US cities police departments use their tech for “predictive policing.” Not to mention they are actively and enthusiastically testing predictive generative AI to plan war crimes and hallucinate targets in the Gaza genocide. Technology they will bring home as “battle tested.”

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Also a lot of right-wing government are planning to use the same exact tech to “completely remove homosexuality from society” among others.

    • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Makes sense. Sex trafficking is sex trafficking. Remember when Lindsey Graham made the sudden switch from vehemently against the Orange pedophile/rapist to best buds? Blackmail makes real sense.

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    The most evil and corrupt person is linked to the most evil and disgusting person? Say it ain’t so I’m clutching my pearls over here.

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    It’s 100% safe to assume anyone who even leans in the direction of supporting supply-side economics is a diddler.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Of course the UK wants to deal with palantir, they want a surveillance state. They have always wanted a surveillance state there