Palantir threatened to call police on a Wired reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration, reports Caroline Haskins of Wired.
Haskins reports, “On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, which is hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public, including journalists.
“Later that day, Palantir had conference security remove at least three other journalists—Jack Poulson, writer of the All-Source Intelligence Substack; Max Blumenthal, who writes and publishes The Grayzone; and Jessica Le Masurier, a reporter at France 24 who was there in an independent capacity—from the conference hall, Poulson says. The reporters were later able to re-enter the hall, Poulson adds.
“The move came after Palantir spokespeople began publicly condemning a recent New York Times report titled ‘Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans’ published on May 30. WIRED previously reported that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was building a master database to surveil and track immigrants. WIRED has also reported that the company was helping DOGE with an IRS data project, collaborating to build a ‘mega-API.'”
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