A group of 26 activist organizations and NGOs signed a letter to companies who advertise on Twitter, warning them to reconsider if Elon Musk makes changes…
Wall Street Journal Claims ‘Shadow Crew’ of Billionaires Urged Musk to Buy Twitter…
Elon Musk responded on May 1 to a report from The Wall Street Journal, based on anonymous sources, that said the world’s richest man had been persuaded to buy Twitter by a “shadow crew.”…
Clearview AI, Smartcheckr, FBI, Interpol, Department of Defense, CIA, Facebook, PayPal, Peter Thiel, Moldbug…
Dumping some information I dug up on Clearview AI. Technologies like this will undoubtedly be used to implement a Chinese-Communist-style social credit system in the West, but I haven’t seen anybody on the dissident right talking about how many links this creepy company has to the dissident right (I wonder why?)…
The Military Origins of Facebook…
Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network…
Palantir Tapped for White House Coronavirus Data Analysis…
Data-mining company Palantir will contribute to a US government program that helps top officials make recommendations to President Donald Trump, according to a Daily Beast report Tuesday. The program, reportedly called HHS Protect Now, crunches data to help officials understand the coronavirus pandemic, in which more than 850,000 people in the states have been diagnosed […]
Former Facebook Security Chief: ‘Completely Reasonable’ to Believe Foreign Governments Have ‘Subverted’ Big Tech…
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed billionaire investor and Trump supporter Peter Thiel on claims that foreign governments could have infiltrated the Masters of the Universe. Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos recently backed up Paypal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel on his comments relating to the influence of foreign governments […]
Peter Thiel Slams “Treasonous” Google For Choosing China Over U.S. Military…
During a talk Sunday at the National Conservatism conference in Washington, Peter Thiel, perhaps the most visible tech entrepreneur to back President Donald Trump, earning the eternal enmity of his fellow Silicon Valley denizens (and necessitating a move to LA), had some harsh words for his one-time friends. The billionaire investor singled out Google for […]
Palantir: The PayPal-offshoot Becomes a Weapon in the War Against Whistleblowers and WikiLeaks…
Peter Thiel, who once compared writers at Gawker to Al Qaeda after they wrote about his sexuality, is a close confidant of Donald Trump — who, as president, continues to crack down on whistleblowers (even denying them bail) and whose administration has named arresting WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange a top priority. Thiel is a perfect […]
Report: Jared Kushner Didn’t Disclose $1 Billion in Loans, Investment Ties to Goldman Sachs and George Soros…
The Journal notes that Kushner’s Cadre stake “means the senior White House official is currently a business partner of Goldman Sachs Group and billionaires including George Soros and Peter Thiel.” The Journal also reports that Kushner didn’t disclose a number of loans “totaling at least $1 billion, from more than 20 lenders,” on properties and […]
Bankrupting Gawker Over a Grudge Isn’t Justice. It’s Censorship…
Though Gawker’s chapter 11 filing may not end it, the fact that a personal vendetta caused the act sets a chilling precedent…