The real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program, which shut down the same day Facebook launched.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey pledged $1 billion to COVID relief and universal basic income while his platform censored dissent. Part 2 of this series traces Dorsey’s ties to the Clintons, the Berggruen Institute, fintech plans for Africa, and the CIA-backed firm Dataminr, which scans every tweet.
