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Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

Ars Technica·WIRED·about 1 month ago
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Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil. "Have you noticed that our caps actually have little pictures of skulls on them?" Credit: BBC It took just a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties . Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump’s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, when current and former employees started ringing the alarm. Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?” “That was their greeting,” the other former employee says.…

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