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Jason Kint

20 Sep, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Woah. This claim in must-read except from new book on Peter Thiel. We knew this secret meeting happened shortly after Zuckerberg's "free expression" speech at Georgetown. FB denies "agreement" happened - it would be an astounding abuse of market power by FB and Trump admin. /1

A reminder the secretive meeting happened as Facebook was receiving massive pressure to follow Google and Twitter's lead in banning micro-targeted political advertising on its platform particularly around misleading ads and messages breaking its policies. /2

This claim also significant and resurfaces why SEC needs to revisit its settlement. A reminder on reports that Peter Thiel's Palantir was involved in teaching Cambridge Analytica how to scrape data from Facebook's platform. Investors should be concerned. /3

It's outrageous to consider Thiel has been a Facebook board member throughout this. The excerpt claims Zuckerberg leaned into him for political support which certainly the facts would seem to support. At minimum. /4

Thiel reportedly funded Gawker's destruction as revenge for embarrassing him so noting anecdote here. “He viewed liberals through a lens as people who were not nice to him,” said a classmate. “The way people treated him at Stanford had a huge impact. That’s still with him.” /5

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1438205599825776644?s=20

It also may explain Zuckerberg's discomfort when questions surfaced about Thiel and Palantir. /6

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1438205599825776644?s=20

here is the full excerpt from the book. Again, must-read. /7 nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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