A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein

In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Thiel’s connections.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Well, Elon wouldn’t work with him because Elon had a shitty idea that Thiel said was shitty and wouldn’t let Elon do it. Elon was forced to settle for becoming filthy rich.

    It’s where the name “X” originally comes from.