Thread by @jessicaschulb

i don't even know what to tweet about @lukeobrien's investigation into Clearview and the founder's myriad of connections to the alt-right bc there's like 100 scoops in here huffpost.com/entry/clearvie…

Clearview AI founder Cam-Hoan Ton-That worked closely with Mike Cernovich, weev, Pax Dickinson, Thiel-associate Jeff Giesea, and Chuck Johnson

Ton- That hung out with Richard Spencer at the 2016 RNC where they chatted about building an ethnostate

Jeff Giesea — who goes way back with Peter Thiel — donated $5,000 to Richard Spencer's white nationalist org and wrote an anonymous guide on "How to Fund the Alt-Right"

Chuck Johnson claims Peter Thiel gave him money

;alkjsf;lskdjf hell slack

Ton- That teamed up with Johnson on a fruitless effort to find examples of Gawker plagiarism

just the guys you want in charge of powerful facial recognition technology

one of the early hires at Smartcheckr (predecessor to Clearview)

here's the guy who was pitching Clearview to law enforcement agencies

there's so much more but i'll stop tweeting the whole story. in case it isn't already clear, @lukeobrien is a reporting wizard with a truly uncanny ability to map out the connections/funding/relationships within the far-right