Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
@br00t4c this explains... A LOT. how did i miss this.
@inthehands @br00t4c it's interesting that there's very little about the family and provenance of a lot of these techbros. the Google guys and Zuck are the exception not the rule.
in researching his background, i hit an interesting wall. the only prominent Thiels i found were associated with Operation Paper Clip. so, you know, Nazis.
him working for the FBI could be related to that.
remember that social media was 'born' the day after the Total Information Awareness program was shut down.
This was hinted in the Atlantic write-up last fall, too: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/111383494612228728
@br00t4c @blogdiva I remember reading about this last year, I think in Wired? The journalist was interviewing Thiel about other ridiculous Thiel shit (billionaire survivalist bunkers, or “planned cities” consisting entirely of crypto bros or some nonsense) then towards the end of the interview asks him point blank about his work with the FBI - Thiel immediately clammed up and ended the interview
@br00t4c It should have been obvious to everyone, around the time of the Arab Spring, that the American social media companies are intelligence assets of the US and its allies.
TikTok is an intelligence asset of China and its allies.
None of these things can be trusted.