Mark Zuckerberg conducts secret, unreported meetings with Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, and Facebook board member Peter Thiel at the White House to negotiate content moderation policies and regulatory pressure. According to later reporting, Zuckerberg promises to avoid fact-checking political speech …
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel delivers prime-time RNC speech endorsing Trump, marking Silicon Valley’s entry into MAGA movement and first openly gay speaker at Republican convention
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JD Vance joins Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm Mithril Capital as a principal, establishing a crucial financial and ideological relationship that would later shape his political career. The partnership connects Vance to Thiel’s techno-libertarian philosophy and provides the foundation …
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Peter Thiel publishes “The Education of a Libertarian” in Cato Institute’s journal, declaring democracy incompatible with freedom, and advocating technological escape from political systems.
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Palantir Technologies was officially incorporated in May 2003 by Peter Thiel and PayPal alumni, just months after Congress defunded DARPA’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program due to privacy concerns. The founders met with John Poindexter, the recently fired director of Total Information …
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