Palantir employees, current and former, are openly questioning whether the company has crossed an ethical line. Within months of Trump's second term beginning, Palantir became the operational software backbone for DHS immigration enforcement, providing tools to identify, track, and deport immigrants at scale.
The dissent is not abstract. Two former employees reconnected by phone and the first words spoken were a question about Palantir's 'descent into fascism.' That framing, coming from insiders, signals something beyond policy disagreement. This is employees describing their own employer's work as morally wrong, not merely controversial.
The full piece is worth reading for what it reveals about the gap between Palantir's stated civil liberties commitments and its actual government contracts. The tension inside the company, and how leadership is responding to it, is the story.
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