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Palantir is Thriving Under Trump w/ Caroline Haskins


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Episode: Palantir is Thriving Under Trump w/ Caroline Haskins
Pub date: 2025-09-18

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Paris Marx is joined by Caroline Haskins to discuss what Palantir actually does and the growing influence it has within the US government and many large corporations.

Caroline Haskins is a staff writer at Wired.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Peter Thiel is giving a series of lectures on the Antichrist.

  • Caroline wrote about Palantir and getting confronted by the company at a conference.
  • Paris mentioned a connection between Paypal and the founding of Palantir; a founding story for Palantir is that the concept for the company grew from the desire to use the fraud-detection software designed for PayPal to build counterterrorism software.

  • Palantir is having a much better financial year than the rest of Silicon Valley.



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