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Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news (redlib.tiekoetter.com)
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According to the comments r/europe_sub and r/canada_sub might be involved as well.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, its like they named themselves intentionally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr

The software data-collection company Palantir Technologies was named by its founder, Peter Thiel, after Tolkien's seeing stones.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anything Peter Thiel is involved in you know it is going to be fucking evil on some level.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From what I can tell he idolizes Saruman.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

A powerful henchmen of the evil lord with secret designs on overthrowing him to become the new big bad guy power. That tracks.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

apparently he is known to have his own island of f---boys. and his boy toy bf last year got mysteriously defenestrated in florida(they alleged suicide, but it seems highly suspicious especially the bf was complainig about the anti-lgbtq+ stance of thiel)

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

he also named his other companies, various LOTR themes too. anduril, lembas,,,etc.