Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data - The New York Times

The plot thickens... Also see Peter Thiel’s Palantir Says Rogue Employee Engaged With Cambridge Analytica (Bloomberg)

"The revelations pulled Palantir — co-founded by the wealthy libertarian Peter Thiel — into the furor surrounding Cambridge, which improperly obtained Facebook data to build analytical tools it deployed on behalf of Donald J. Trump and other Republican candidates in 2016. Mr. Thiel, a supporter of President Trump, serves on the board at Facebook. “There were senior Palantir employees that were also working on the Facebook data,” said Christopher Wylie, a data expert and Cambridge Analytica co-founder, in testimony before British lawmakers on Tuesday."

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"A former intern at SCL — Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of Eric Schmidt, then Google’s executive chairman — urged the company to link up with Palantir, according to Mr. Wylie’s testimony and a June 2013 email viewed by The Times."

Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data - The New York Times