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Hey, you know what’s a terrifying company? Palantir, the data-oriented intelligence firm co-founded by Peter Thiel with $2 million in seed money from the C.I.A.’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. This week, The New York Times reported that a Palantir employee in London came up with the idea to use a bullshit personality quiz as a digital carrot to convince people to give their the personal data (and, inadvertently, that of everyone they know) — a suggestion that he sent to Cambridge Analytica, who then deployed it to gain access to the contents of 50 million Facebook profiles, a trove of information which may or may not have helped Donald Trump become President. (In a statement, Palantir told the Times that the employee’s interactions with Cambridge Analytica were done “in an entirely personal capacity” and that the company is “looking into this and will take the appropriate action.”)

The idea that Thiel, a Facebook board member and an outspoken Trump supporter during the 2016 election, also had his hand in a company that helped Cambridge Analytica take canny advantage of Facebook’s privacy guidelines to look at all our shit, almost reads like a conspiracy theory — one so extraordinarily bonkers that most people probably won’t care whether or not it’s all a big coincidence.

https://theoutline.com/post/3978/peter-thiel-knows-you-ran-that-red-light?zd=1&zi=mkosqdlw

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