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Team Trump Turns to Peter Thiel’s Palantir to Track Virus

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Palantir, a longtime partner of intelligence agencies, co-founded by major Trump backer Peter Thiel, is helping build “the single source for [coronavirus] testing data.”

Spencer Ackerman 

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Erin Banco 

National Security Reporter

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