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21. How about Peter Thiel? Big investor in Facebook,

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:37 AM

Mar 2018

like Mercer a hardcore libertarian, and the owner of Palantir, which handles "vast datasets on UK and US citizens for GCHQ and the NSA, as well as many other countries." The Trump campaign reportedly said Thiel helped them with data.

"To anyone concerned about surveillance, Palantir is practically now a trigger word. The data-mining firm has contracts with governments all over the world – including GCHQ and the NSA. It’s owned by Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and major investor in Facebook, who became Silicon Valley’s first vocal supporter of Trump."

These quotes are from a The Guardian article headed with "This article is the subject of legal complaints on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL Elections Limited."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

Thiel also has long-time connections to Trump, particularly through Jared Kushner. I believe some assistant of his whose name I can't remember went to work for the campaign, or other associated entity.

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Umm... LovingA2andMI Mar 2018 #12

How about Peter Thiel? Big investor in Facebook, Hortensis Mar 2018 #21

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Facebook... LovingA2andMI Mar 2018 #13

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We're following you.... LovingA2andMI Mar 2018 #14

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