I did read through it and they tracked it back to Recorded Future [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future

Why does wikipedia link them with Palantir (and vice versa)? Is it just because they seem to be providing similar products or is there more to it?

Someone on the talk page brought up the same point. "The only discernible connection is that both had In-Q-Tel as an early investor, as did numerous other companies (none of which are listed as related, nor should be they be)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Recorded_Future

One CIA funded company that is definitely scanning Facebook chats is Facebook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Software

It was pointed out above, but the In-Q-Tel involvement in Facebook is seriously tenuous;

    The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7
    million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners.
    Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of
    the National Venture Capital Association, and served
    on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a
    venture capital firm established by the Central
    Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's
    key areas of expertise are in "data mining
    technologies".

So the evidence for an investment is that Facebook's lead investor for their Series A was the Chairman of the NVCA, of which the CEO of In-Q-Tel was also a member (along with 7 other prominent VCs). That's it.. an investor was on a board with the CEO of In-Q-Tel.

None of Facebook's SEC filings ever showed a single dollar from In-Q-Tel and they're not shy about publicizing what they've invested in:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/in-q-tel/investments

Interesting, I'd heard it mentioned a number of times and I just assumed it was true.

Hi I'm sorry for the inconvenient but we are recieving a huge amount of traffic.

What do you think Palantir does that would have them scanning FB chat?

Palantir does tons of government and military work.

Doesn't answer my question deeply enough.

Military == antiterrorism == SELECT * FROM chat WHERE text CONTAINS "jihad"

also "inequality" and "capitalism"

Why was this comment voted down? It challenged an uninformed speculation based on the title of a speculation.

Big data analytics is their bread and butter – if they had a way to analyze Facebook messages for patterns and predictively useful metrics, I'm sure they would.

AFAIK not analytics, but an interface that makes exploring data easier for analysts

They are mostly about exploring the data yes, but they also do some data mining in the content in order to make connections. They attempt to pull out names and link them together and things along those lines. I think they would be far more interested in mining all of the friendships to do the network analysis than the content of the chats.

They do analytics as well.