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Inside Palantir: Profits, Power and the Kill Machine

We spoke to a former Palantir employee, now turned critic, agitator and educator speaking out against the tech company.

I think we're experiencing it right now, where the leader of a company that spearheads the development of advanced tracking, killing technologies [Alex Karp] is considered the Economist CEO of the Year,a man who constantly talks about executing journalists and critics, including by using covert assassination methods like fentanyl poisoning. That is developed by a team that supposedly cares for civil liberties, but in my opinion, serves more of a public relations function, internally and externally, to sort of qualm beliefs that, ‘Oh yeah, Palantir does really dangerous stuff by nature, but we have this group of people here who are devoted full time to thinking about it’. So it's a big, private American company that helps perpetuate all this militarized violence, and is kind of the digital arm to Trump 2.0 data capture, that has a huge contract now to handle sensitive health records of everyone in the UK, the whole population.

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