Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · Jun 12 The author of the piece attacks critics of Peter Thiel’s Palantir, dismissing them as “deranged”. Yet some relevant information about the author should have been disclosed before the article itself – the kind of disclosure one would expect from honest journalism. 1/2
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The author Michael Gibson co-ran the Thiel Fellowship from 2010 to 2015. He served as Vice President of Grants at the Thiel Foundation and helped launch the program. Thiel backed Gibson's 1517 Fund, which Gibson co-founded in 2015 with Danielle Strachman after leaving the Thiel Fellowship. 2/2