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Re:Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook ... by duncan_bayne on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:26PM (#16692880)
Is it possible you have the causality reversed here? What if Thiel's confidence was born of a conviction, backed by research, that he could help swing the election for Trump?

Not "our data suggest he may win" but "our data suggest we can help him win".

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