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1. Hours before recess, PM quietly announced that Downing St had taken control of the govt’s use of data.

Trump did EXACT same thing in the US last week.

This is not a coincidence!

It is part of a single, coordinated US-UK strategy. #Palantir #COVID
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2. Now I know this may sound counter intuitive, but I ask you read to the end of the thread & ideally the thread embedded above☝️

I don't pretend to have a single clear explanation, but I believe I have part of it.

Everything is fact-based.

Only v occasionally do I speculate. Image
3. In May, Amnesty warned: “The shadowy data-mining firm Palantir, whose technology has powered some of the most nefarious immigration abuses, is now collecting troves of health data about all of us.”

Palantir is running US & UK govt's #COVID platforms.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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A company owned & controlled by Dominic Cummings paid £250,000 to Faculty, the AI firm that worked on Vote Leave, in 2018/2019.

Faculty also got the NHS #COVID contract alongside Palantir - a shadowy US AI firm owned by far-right billionaire, Peter Thiel. theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
2/ Faculty AI was set up by the Warner brothers. They worked on Tory election & Leave campaigns.

They both attended SAGE meetings. Ben was in 13 of 34 meetings.

Faculty, won a £250m NHS contract last August (this was only publicly announced on 13 March).
3/. Faculty AI (formerly known as ASI Datascience) has so far won 13 govt contracts.

Faculty rprtdly employed several Cambridge Analytica employees to provide the data behind Cummings Vote Leave data team. That data was turned over AIQ for microtargeting.
theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
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