Inside the powerful extreme-right Peter Thiel network that funded JD Vance’s political career. For Thiel, Vance’s presence on the Republican ticket is the payoff on a bet placed a decade ago, when he recruited the Yale Law School graduate as his protégé — joining his other proteges Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI founder Sam Altman. Thiel’s company Palantir states it may collect, use, and disclose Americans’ personal data similar to Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and OpenAI. 🇺🇸
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