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What do you do when Big Tech captures the state? You keep watch.

👁‍🗨 Introducing The Eye from investigative journalists Max and @CharlieNotOld tracking the companies, ideologies and networks reshaping our democracy.

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Being informed is very hot, actually.

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Looking for something worth reading? Start with our big tech beach reads

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The Kremlin's corrosion campaign relies on ordinary people doing ordinary things — and the ordinariness is the point.

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Thiel’s companies are portrayed as islands of coherence in a sea of chaos.

It’s hard to see, from dry land, that Thiel is the one making the waters rise.

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The questions remain and so do we.

Stay informed as our campaign for a full public inquiry continues 👇

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How the state invited sabotage to our streets - a timeline ⌛️

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@CharlieNotOld Wanna know how to fight back? We'll also trace the growing resistance to Big Tech's capture of the state.

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“By framing global instability as an existential threat, Palantir creates the political demand for its own permanent solutions.”

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Every week, Max and Charlie @CharlieNotOld will track the companies, billionaires and ideas concentrating power in fewer hands in The Eye.

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Every week, The Eye tracks Big Tech’s capture of the state, the billionaires concentrating power, and the people fighting to take it back.

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Peter Thiel is an empire builder.

He doesn't just build companies, he builds narratives that convince governments they can’t function without them.

How is that sense of necessity manufactured? 🧵

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Perhaps Palantir is losing the argument it’s spent years making: that democratic states cannot function without it.

👀 This was first published in our newsletter, The Eye. Read it here: https://t.co/vV7jl0Bzif

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