BLUF:[PJ] What makes this so interesting is that Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, who is also a board member and early investor in Facebook. What does this mean? A Facebook board member was possibly connected to the harvesting of Facebook data that created a huge privacy breach.
On Tuesday, Christopher Wylie, a data expert and Cambridge Analytica co-founder, testified to British lawmakers that "there were senior Palantir employees that were also working on the Facebook data."
According to an article in Mashable, "Thiel donated $1,000,000 in October of 2016 to the Super PAC Make America Number 1 ‐ an organization that paid Cambridge Analytica $231,352 toward the end of the same year, an FEC filing shows."
"In other words, a portion of Thiel's wealth ‐ some of which was derived from his early investment in Facebook ‐ likely made its way into the coffers of Cambridge Analytica via Make America Number 1. "
Do you see the connection here? A Facebook board member appears to be involved in the data loss scandal that’s created Facebook’s biggest crisis yet, but Zuckerberg claims he’s unaware of the connection. He’s either not telling all he knows or he’s terribly naïve and being taken advantage of by his board member.
