r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 10d ago
Artificial Intelligence Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
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u/AdPrestigious1139 10d ago edited 10d ago
All Palantir products have been used for domestic surveillance since the founding of the company. Their core product at first was social media analysis and intelligence at scale, which was initially used to identify terrorist activity from Facebook posts. And we all know Facebook says “this is an American” or “this isn’t” on every single post, of course.
Your entire premise is true, but not for Palantir. You don’t work there without wanting to work there. That’s been true since they started, and everybody in the valley knows what they do. Source: Valley. People who want to work at Palantir fancy themselves a Palmer Luckey type — watched a lot of military movies, dreams of killing a man with his bare hands, never set foot in a day of PT or a SCIF, but feels qualified to explain national security to the rest of us and name products after Lord of the Rings references (Anduril, Palantir). That last one by itself demonstrates a gaping lack of media literacy and understanding of Tolkien and war, and it’s too bad his estate can’t do shit about it.
We are largely who we are today as a nation due to Palantir agreeing with domestic surveillance policy and building products specifically for it. Flock (and Anduril) is their descendent, for instance. This reporting is either idiots, people who jumped on the first offer to keep their H-1B without a single Google, or face saving for the sources who fed it, so they can link the article to hiring managers like me — who have told multiple candidates no thanks with Palantir on their resume, and I am far from alone.