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I'm curious, why Palantir as worse? As I understand it they are basically well very built data pipelines + dashboards + marketing. See here for example: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/

Not try to defending them, but I do believe Meta is doing much more harm, purely based on Instagram for children.

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Palantir's entire purpose for existence is to implement the Total Information Awareness program that US citizens rejected. They're domestic spies.

Are they worse than Meta? I don't know, a strong argument can be made that both organizations are very harmful and there's no point in trying to rank which is worse.

Not much worse. I would wager that governments around the world buy data from data brokers and from Meta to be processed with Palantir to target journalists, protesters, political opponents, and random innocent people inadvertently between deliberate intention and sketchy AI correlation without real evidence.

why are people down voting this? this person is asking a question. Man, hackernews is become so judgemental lately.

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