There are plenty of reasons to critique Palantir but this article comes across as so ham-fisted, conspiratorial, and wanting facts that it actually makes me more sympathetic.

Critiques of Govt contractors really need to be grounded in first principles. Namely:

- should the government be able to wage war?

- should the government collect data? How much?

- how effective do we want these companies providing these services to be?

- how integrated do we want these different govt and non-govt tools and datasets.

Finally should these tools start or stop working when leaders you don’t like are democratically elected?

Palantir also did great work with hospitals and vaccines delivery during the pandemic and continues to do great work with hospitals.

Most of the critiques of Palantir come down to them being good at a job or mission the critic doesn't agree with.