Palantir Is Going on Defense

Palant, faced with assembly The public examination of his work with the Trump administration, took an increasingly defensive position towards journalists and criticisms received this week, both at a defense conference in Washington DC and on social networks.

On Tuesday, an employee of Palantant threatened to call the police on a cable journalist who looked at software demonstrations on his stand in AI + Expo. The conference, organized by the project of special competitive studies, a reflection group founded by the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public, including journalists.

Later in the day, Palantir made sure that the safety of conferences takes away at least three other journalists – Jack Poulson, writer of intelligence substitution for all sources; Max Blumenthal, who writes and publishes Le Grayzone; And Jessica Le Masurier, journalist at France 24 – from the conference room, known as Poulson. The journalists were then able to enter the room, adds Poulson.

This decision came after the spokesperson for Palantir Recent New York Times report Entitled “Trump Tape Palant to compile data on Americans” published on May 30. Clarification previously reported That the so-called Department of Elon Musk’s government efficiency (DOGE) built a main database to monitor and follow immigrants. Wired also reported That the company helped Doge with an IRS data project, collaborating to build a “Mega-Adep”.

Palantir’s public criticism is unusual, because the company generally does not publish declarations repelling individual news.

Before being expelled from the Palantant stand, the wired journalist, who is also the author of this article, took photos, videos and notes written during Palantir Fedstart Partners software demos, which uses the company’s cloud systems to be certified for government work. The stands of the stand had sentences like “wake up the giant” and “do not give up the ship!” printed outside. When the journalist briefly moved from the stand and tried to return, she was arrested by Eliano Younes, the head of the strategic commitment of Palantir, who said that Wired was not allowed to be there. The journalist asked why, and Younes repeated himself, adding that if Wired tried to come back, he called the police.

After the end of the conference, Younes responded to a photo of the conference on which the journalist published X. “Hé Caroline, great to see you at the exhibition yesterday,” he wrote. “I can’t wait to read your event cover.” Palantir did not respond to the request for wired comments.

Poulson tells Wired that he, Blumenthal and the masurier also looked at demos on the Palantant stand before being expelled. After a Tuesday panel with Younes and the engineer of Palantir Ryan Fox, Poulson says that the masurier approached Younes near the Palantant stand and asked questions about the company Work for immigration and customs application. An employee of Palant has walked between them and said that Palant has asked her to leave “several times”, according to a video of the interaction seen by Wired, and she was escorted out of the conference room shortly after.