Charlie Young

🏮REVEALED: Peter Thiel’s spyware firm Palantir have over £630m in UK Government contracts. They’re laced through the NHS, the Home Office, and the military: including our nuclear weapons. By @carolecadwalladr, Max Colbert and myself for @thenerve_news

NEW: Up to one in three people with workplace pensions may be unwitting investors in the controversial tech surveillance company, Palantir. A @thenerve_news investigation led by @FTM_nl reveals UK financial services companies hold more than £5bn in Palantir shares 1/

Labour Together paid US Agency to investigate journalists who exposed its late report of donations fuelling Keir Starmer’s bid to be leader. So I did Subject Access Request to see if they had collected info on me.They had but this is what I received: page after page of redactions

@soops_ @carolecadwalla This is great - I'll have a little explore. Thanks!

@carolecadwalla @CharlieNotOld I was sent this via IG Stories last night if you want to give it a whirl re: #digitalID Giving access to private sector/third parties was brought up. I don't understand how they don't understand how problematic that potentially is. …alidconsultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/t/haveyoursayo…

Distracted by the slaughter of children in Iran & Lebanon? Me too! But what better time could there be for govt to quietly relaunch its Digital ID plan? Missed it? Me too! But look who’s celebrating… The director of ‘govt innovation’ at the Tony Blair Institute! 1/

I mentioned yesterday that #NHS Senior Management & Global Counsel lobbying firm advisor guy Matthew Swindells previously worked at US Elecrronic Health Record provider Cerner that was bought by Oracle in 2021. Who are #Oracle? Watch this today: youtu.be/r7HbnaKai8A?si…

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve_news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @CharlieNotOld

NEW MoD insiders warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security. One told the Nerve: "Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology" Investigation by Charlie Young @charlienotold and @carolecadwalla 🧵 1/7

NEW: NHS England is being called on to cancel its contract with US spytech firm Palantir due to ‘serious risks’ to the NHS - including irreparable reputational damage and the permanent undermining of public trust.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by US analytics software company Palantir. A coalition of human rights, health and patient organisations, and unions sent out the plea to NHS trusts by email bmj.com/content/392/bm…

The fact that most media is still portraying Israel's ethnic cleansing, land grab and all out war on Lebanon as "attacks on Hezbollah" will forever be remembered as complicity in the atrocities. This is Gaza over and over and over again, no accountability in sight.

"This is Maven Smart System—Palantir’s software as a service product that we are deploying across the entire department."

Nearly 2 years since they closed my bank accounts for speaking out against Israeli war crimes at the United Nations. Last month, with the help of some friends and lawyers, I managed to open a new account after two years of ongoing financial penalties. Today, Sparkasse Bank closed my new bank account… This time, the financial penalties targeted me and my family! They closed also my wife’s bank account. They also informed me that I cannot open a new bank account now or in the future and even in all their partner banks. All this for my voice! For saying stop violating international law and killing children! Even as an accredited representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council!

It’s almost like climate science was a … science, with testable and nullifiable hypotheses, not vibes. And that anthropogenic climate change, and its rate and drivers, are actually supported by observed data …

The Alt Reich technofascists are extending their reach. Axel Springer has deep ties to Peter Thiel, primarily through CEO Mathias Döpfner, whose son, Moritz Döpfner, ran Thiel Capital's office and received a $50 million investment from Thiel for a new venture fund.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation. They say: - the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement - the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms - the government’s mixed public messaging on AI & copyright is hindering licensing - the government should make a clear public statement that AI companies operating in the UK need to license their training data (which is the law) - AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company ft.trib.al/jnT6fxC

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Palantir provided the 'minority report' intel used to justify US-Israeli strikes on Iran - and is now profiting from the war. All three of its top figures publicly advocated for this conflict. One called it an investment opportunity 🧵/1 bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/pal…

American Techno-Oligarchy, the Far Right, and the Battle over Europe's Future: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/american-tec…

These takes about China not intervening in Iran are, quite literally, obscene. I mean, the sheer insanity of a former U.S. ambassador to China publicly taunting China and Russia for not intervening against them - and thereby triggering full-fledged WW3 - is genuinely unhinged. And completely stupid, I might add: these people are so high on their own propaganda that they're mocking nuclear-armed powers for exercising the very restraint that's keeping them alive. Because it IS propaganda: the notion that there exists a so-called "alliance of authoritarianism" has absolutely zero basis in reality. Heck, "authoritarianism" itself has zero basis in reality: it's a purely propaganda term designed to flatten the enormous diversity of non-Western political systems into a single derogatory category. It's the geopolitical equivalent of calling everyone you don't like the same insult - it says nothing about them and everything about your inability, or unwillingness, to understand them. That's often the thing about U.S. propaganda: they invent completely artificial and self-serving concepts like lumping every country they dislike together as an "axis of authoritarians" and then, when said axis doesn't materialize in practice - simply because it actually doesn't exist - they mock these countries for not living up to a fiction they made up. It's true that China is friendly to Iran and that they do not follow Washington's unilateral sanctions against it - because why would they? These are American sanctions, not international law. The actual offense here is independence, the refusal to go along with U.S. aggression. But not being a US vassal is not the same thing as being in a military alliance. The distance between "we trade with whoever we want" and "we'll go to war with the U.S. for you" is absolutely enormous. Confusing the two is the product of a worldview so distorted by U.S. imperialism that any act of independence registers as an act of war. Lastly, let's not forget what's actually happening: the U.S. is bombing a country of 90 million people, killing religious leaders (Ayatollah Khamenei), public servants and diplomats, massacring schoolgirls, etc. And the discourse in Washington - even by the opposition (Burns was in the Biden administration) - isn't about the chaos, death and destruction their country is once more unleashing on a region that they've been destroying for decades (for what result?), coming right on the back of a genocide they sponsored, but it's about point scoring against China, as if not waging war was a character flaw... All in all, this tweet 👇 is actually a perfect encapsulation of how profoundly sociopathic U.S. elites have become: mid-massacre they're taunting others for their lack of bloodlust - against them (!). Which is, when you think about it, an inadvertent confession: you don't expect retaliation for something you truly believe is justified.

For those of you who don’t know MacLeod is a PhD in sociology who focuses on geopolitics and propaganda and its very cool that he is active on Twitter and you should all follow him

The difference is by design.