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Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.
['Alex Nguyen', 'Nick Schwellenbach', 'Russ Choma', 'Dan Friedman', 'David Corn', 'Sophie Hurwitz', 'Ali Breland', 'Matthew Delmont', 'Inae Oh', 'Anna Rogers']
Mother Jones
A new tool, launched Thursday, follows the money making it happen.
The campaign’s Jacinta González, head of programs at the progressive communications shop MediaJustice, says the tool helps bring to light Palantir’s business model to “operate in the shadows” through lobbying and political donations.
In fact, as a Monday report in Wired notes, Palantir’s own employees—some of whom are openly disturbed by the firm’s ICE collaboration—rely on outside news reports for information on their employer’s practices.
Elected officials, meanwhile, continue to take Palantir’s money.
The top six Palantir-funded politicians—via the company’s corporate PAC or individual contributors employed there—are Donald Trump, Sens.