Palantir Contracts and Tax Loopholes Fuel State Surveillance Growth
August 7, 2026
USA Today Co. and state agencies from British Columbia to Whitehall are embedding Palantir's data systems into newsrooms and public healthcare even as its military contracts and tax avoidance face global scrutiny. Backed by Peter Thiel's political networks and soaring corporate revenues, the defense tech firm is rapidly consolidating proprietary control over public infrastructure while weaponizing state security apparatuses against democratic oversight.
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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership to “strengthen how we collect, connect a…
- media and technology
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Why $370bn tech group Palantir pays 1.4 percent tax rate: Report
The AI group's technology is used by Israeli military and Trump administration's ICE.
- geopolitics
- structural power
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Tech giant Palantir posts ‘otherworldly’ growth despite criticism over Gaza
Second-quarter revenue jumped 93 percent but Palantir's ties to Israel and role in military technology are controversial
- geopolitics
- structural power
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Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss The software group Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are like…
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‘This quarter was otherworldly’: Palantir earnings surge past expectations
Shares soar as yearly revenue up 93%, even as opposition grows to company’s role in Trump immigration agenda In a sea of companies reporting mixed financial results this quarter, Palantir stands out. Although Palantir was not immune to the AI jitters that caused industry-wide drops in share prices e…
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to…
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Palantir registered to lobby B.C. health authorities
Palantir Technologies Canada Inc. was registered as a lobbyist in B.C. as recently as June. Elsewhere in the world, Palantir’s health-care contracts are coming under fire.
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State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”
Founded by Trump ally and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir has attacked the press and works in the digital surveillance space. The post State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance” appeared first on The Intercept.
- structural power
- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology
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The big Blair-era loophole behind Palantir’s tiny tax bill
Palantir’s UK CEO Louis Mosley says the company uses “a standard tax incentive” to minimise corporate tax. But the UK is one of the few countries that allows for this.
- structural power
- geopolitics