{"id":234852,"date":"2026-04-23T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:20:15","slug":"palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-23 12:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It took just a few months of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term for Palantir employees to question their company\u2019s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.<\/p>\n

Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, \u201cAre you tracking Palantir\u2019s descent into fascism?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was their greeting,\u201d the other former employee says. \u201cThere\u2019s this feeling not of \u2018Oh, this is unpopular and hard,\u2019 but, \u2018This feels wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Palantir was founded\u2014with initial venture capital investment from the CIA\u2014at a moment of national consensus following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when many saw fighting terrorism abroad as the most critical mission facing the US. The company, which was cofounded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, sells software that acts as a high-powered data aggregation and analysis tool powering everything from private businesses to the US military\u2019s targeting systems.<\/p>\n

For the last 20 years, employees could accept the intense external criticism and awkward conversations with family and friends about working for a company named after J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s corrupting all-seeing orb. But a year into Trump\u2019s second term, as Palantir deepens its relationship with an administration many workers fear is wreaking havoc at home, employees are finally raising these concerns internally, as the US\u2019s war on immigrants, war in Iran, and even company-released manifestos has forced them to rethink the role they play in it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hire the best and brightest talent to help defend America and its allies and to build and deploy our software to help governments and businesses around the world. Palantir is no…<\/p>\n

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