Palantir is an AI company run by Peter Thiel, a tech billionaire who’s basically the answer to the question “what if Elon Musk was exactly the same ideologically, minus the crippling need for attention and approval?” and a longtime friend of the American right wing, and Trump has tapped Palantir for its data-mining capabilities, which the administration claims is to keep more efficient records, and the opposition claims opens a dangerous door to further security apparatus overreach and spying.

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