Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

[kim_harding@mastodon.scot]

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...

[apenkop@mstdn.social]

@kim_harding It has been mislabeled ‘AI’ but it isn’t intelligent and hence not artificial. It is Apparent Stupidity and Theft.

[theyosh@mastodon.theyosh.nl]

@kim_harding Nice, Palantir never heard of 'Streisand effect'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Not so smart AI....

[richrarobi@mastodon.social]

@kim_harding

The Swiss government seems to be more aware than a certain other government quite close by.

#lobbying bribes destroy democracy
#ukgovernment naive?
#westminster obsolete not fit for purpose
#singleTransVote now

[fishnameddog@mastodon.social]

@kim_harding oh dear my hand accidentally slipped and I boosted this! alas! woe is palantir! I am so ashamed of myself!

[anatomical_normalcy@mastodon.social]

@kim_harding Oh no! I'm looking at this! And seeing how stupid they are!

[hans_zelf@mas.to]

@kim_harding Oops, shared it! Sorry not sorry.

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@kim_harding

[reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca]

@kim_harding my finger slipped, sorry, it's boosted.

[orca@nya.one]

@kim_harding@mastodon.scot My sympathy to Palantir.
(hit repost)
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[dazzr@social.tchncs.de]

@kim_harding Yes, we shouldn't share this post. No, happy to help!

[closeted_unionist@mastodon.social]

@kim_harding I don't think they care if people know as long as they can make an example out of them/ bleed them dry financially (eg a billion dollar corpo can afford to drag their case in court vs a random news outlet)

[gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io]

@kim_harding Boosted to my small group of like-minded computer weirdos. I only wish I had more reach, in this particular case.

[pascaline@mastodon.nl]

@kim_harding

Oooh 🤏

[physicap@mastodon.social]

@kim_harding Palantir is the spoiled child of siphoned taxpayer dollars.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@kim_harding There’s something sick about the US ”justice system”.
Lawsuits are used as threats to shut up.

[teun@kolektiva.social]

@kim_harding

So you're saying that Palantir doesn't want us to read this story, which is freely available and only a 15-minute read?

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland

Gotcha.

[zosho@toot.wales]

@kim_harding I’d been looking for an epithet to concisely describe Palantir to friends…
“a heavy-handed American entity with uncomfortably close ties to U.S. intelligence” just about fits the bill.

[light@noc.social]

@kim_harding @condret
Why are they (Republik) labelling the CEO of a government contractor surveillance company as a libertarian just because he's "right-wing"?
I hate the corruption of that word.

[light@noc.social]

@physicap
"Libertarian" lol
@kim_harding