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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by stagehn on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:02AM (#24552748)
It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by k___ on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:00AM (#24553468)
You mean when they were bought by NewsCorp???

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch....

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by notmurdoch on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:10AM (#24553984)
This is blatant misinformation. The article you linked says Murdoch bought a 5% share seven years ago, and Murdoch isn't News Corp, and 5% is not a buyout. According to Wikipedia[0], today his share is so small they don't even list a percentile, and Soros (the Right's bogeyman, to counterbalance yours) owns 10%, with the actual majority stake split between larger, uncontroversial owners. News Corp owns 0% of Vice Media. Fake news.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by gameswithgo on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:47AM (#24553796)
fortunately right leaning news organizations headed by older people like fox and breitbart are always serious and high quality journalism
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by yters on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:51AM (#24553832)
isn't vice headed by an alt right guy?
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by zaphod12 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:57AM (#24553878)
It was...but they parted ways several years ago.
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:56AM (#24553874)
It was founded only I think, but there was some beef with the other founder and he was bought out.
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