A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein

In 2023, the then-Conservative government awarded Palantir with a £330m contract to “build a new NHS data platform”. The move proved controversial because Palantir is a US spy tech firm and its co-founder Peter Thiel is a prominent Trump donor with links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, a trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Thiel’s connections.

  • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    1 day ago

    as a rule I don’t subscribe to theories related to the blood libel myth but if there was a dude to try injecting children’s’s blood into his blood to prolong his own life, it’s probably this psycho. the dude needs a straight jacket and glands removed. not government contracts.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      28·
      1 day ago

      I mean…

      In 2016, various media outlets reported that Mr Thiel had links to the radical life extension startup Ambrosia, with Gawker claiming he “spends $40,00 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice.”

      These reports cited his investment portfolio, together with a 2009 essay that laid out his philosophical and political beliefs. In it, he wrote that he stood against “the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual.”

      However the blood transfusion claims were never verified and Gawker shut down shortly after following an unrelated lawsuit partly funded by Mr Thiel.