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Are Palantir employees starting to realize they’re the baddies?

Séamus Bellamy
Apr 24, 2026
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Co-founded by famed FBI informant Peter Thiel (along with seed money from the CIA), Palantir’s tech is often used to make hospital networks run more efficiently, monitor food supply chains and energy consumption or predict when a piece of machinery may need to be replaced. All good things! But, when the company you work for is named after a malignant al…

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