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

BREAKING: scientists fear horrific impacts as El Niño rapidly intensifies with the overall mean of +2.8˚C (all models) pointing to the strongest ever event on record.. and yet corporate media journalists remain shamefully silent on rapid minor mass extinction even now

Who actually shapes AI policy in the U.S.? We mapped 1,812 entities: 745 people, 918 organizations, 2,925 relationships. Frontier Labs, AI Safety orgs, Think Tanks, Government, VCs, and more. mapping-ai.org

A Peter Thiel-backed startup has launched an “AI jury” to discredit journalism, with ambitions to build a “global AI arbitration court”. What could possibly go wrong? 👉👉 oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/an-oligarchs…

"Intensely private" Chris Harborne, who gave Reform more than £20m so far, in the middle of a MAGA crowd at the Coachella Trump rally, 2024. Around that time WSJ reported that Howard Lutnick, now Trump secretary, personally negotiated a 5% stake on Tether for Cantor Fitzgerald.

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

We can reveal the true cost of the UK-US pharma deal is nearly £64bn, not the £1bn the government claims! Researchers predict 330,000 excess NHS deaths by 2036. More than the first 2 years of Covid. Parliament hasn't seen the deal. FOI requests refuse.🧵thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-0…

We’re especially keen to meet young (or old!) investigative journalists who want to tackle the big subjects. If you have an idea or want to meet, do get in touch info@thenerve.news

The lopsided balance of power between capital and labour: the workers have no ability to refuse to wear the cameras which are training systems which will eventually replace the workers themselves

As @declassifiedUK's @markcurtis30 has reported - this 2020 military agreement between the UK and Israel, negotiated under Nick Carter, remains fully in force despite Israel’s war in Gaza and mounting allegations of genocide. As he reports, successive British governments have refused to disclose its contents, but it extends to training, intelligence support and high level military engagement. Ministers have repeatedly blocked parliamentary scrutiny, even as Israeli actions have drawn condemnation from bodies such as the International Criminal Court and the United Nations.

Britain: Here’s Palantir - the company that handles all your most intimate health data - being praised by President Trump for its ‘great war’ Bit it’s ok, he’s probably just trying to manipulate the stock price

OkCupid's founders personally funneled three million users' dating photos to a facial recognition company they'd invested in. No contract. No consent. One founder sent the data from his personal email. Those photos trained software that identifies age, sex, and race, sold to police and military...

Horrifying scenes from Beirut #Lebanon today. Nearly 100 Israeli airstrikes in less than 10 minutes, in broad daylight, with rush hour traffic heard in background. At least 89 killed…

Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/trigger-th…

Does anyone know why Palantir pays such a small amount of UK corporation tax in proportion to this? Only £2m in 2024 and less than £1m in 2023. I'm guessing a lot of revenue from the MOD contracts goes through the US parent company 🤔

A year ago today, @labourlewis brought his Private Members' Bill on water to Parliament.It aimed to fix our broken system by giving the public a say over who should own it.Since then the call for public ownership has only grown. Watch his speech youtube.com/watch?v=5gIOTH…

A new paper shows that neoliberal austerity policies implemented by the World Bank and the IMF in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s were associated with a *20% decline in real incomes.* The destruction caused by these organisations across the Global South is staggering.

It won't, but JMail should be winning every research prize and grant for the next five years minimum.

🚨NEWS: UK iPhone users must now prove their age or lose full internet access "It is absolutely outrageous that, overnight, Apple has put a chokehold on Britons' freedom to search the internet, access information and use apps unless they provide sensitive ID documents. This means 35 million Brits who have paid hundreds or even thousands of pounds for Apple tech suddenly now have a child's device unless they comply with invasive demands for personal information that go far beyond what UK law requires. Apple has crossed the Rubicon with this software update which is more like ransomware, holding customers hostage to ID demands that are invasive, exclusionary and unnecessary. Children's online safety is vital but requires better parental controls and thoughtful tech responsibility - not sweeping, draconian, shock demands by foreign companies for all of our IDs and credit cards." - Silkie Carlo [@silkiecarlo]

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government.  When you take the subway, when you share a TikTok, when you talk to your Alexa at home, they are collecting your data and figuring out new ways to weaponize it. Now, they are using AI tools to automate this so it is not only pervasive, but that it is effortless. We must sound the alarm now.