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It’s more a question of what it would do, if anything,” one current employee tells WIRED
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While internal tensions within Palantir have grown over the last year, they reached a boiling point in January after the violent killing of Alex Pretti, a nurse who was shot and killed by federal agents during protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.
Key facts
- Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA—at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad
- While internal tensions within Palantir have grown over the last year, they reached a boiling point in January after the violent killing of Alex Pretti, a nurse who was shot and killed by federal
- It took a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties
- For the last 20 years, employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J
Summary
It took a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties. Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. “That was their greeting,” the other former employee says. Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA—at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US. For the last 20 years, employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J.