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USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

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Re: USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

#11

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You’ve enquoted “Palantir taking your data” as if it’s not factual, but the only one with data privacy guarantees here is USA Today.

You can’t “convert the sheer scale of our audience into known, orchestrated first-party relationships” without compromising your privacy.

Re: USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

#15

I dislike USA Today. It feels like lowest common denominator fluffy news. Also, I remember staying at a hotel once where they delivered one to every guest room.

I didn't see you capitalized the T at first. The sentence was still somehow making sense.

Re: USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

#20

Personally, I ditched almost all western media outlets altogether because of their zionist and fascist tendencies. The propaganda was much too obvious. I don't think a Palantir partnership is going to change my mind. Hacker News occasionally indexed Palestinian voices but this was a breath of fresh air compared to outlets like USA Today. I'm actually constantly conflicted about the sources I consume and still seek al…

> Personally, I ditched almost all western media outlets altogether because of their zionist and fascist tendencies.

That is not helpful, and a very good way of falling down rabbit holes just because you find a source that agrees with you on one subject. That’s how you get manipulated and radicalised.

It’s much better to have a variety of sources, even if you occasionally disagree. It keeps you grounded and reminds you that other people have other opinions.

I cannot stress this enough: do not get polarised because of a single issue. That is how rational discourse dies.

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