Whitney Webb gives insight into Trump and the Palantir "Panopticon" being built

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Whitney Webb gives insight into Trump and the Palantir "Panopticon" being built:

"Trump has been openly building databases on people with Palantir...most people know they're doing that with ICE, but the administration [has] announced... they're doing it for everybody."

This clip of Webb (@_whitneywebb), a contributing editor of Unlimited Hangout and author of One Nation Under Blackmail, is taken from an interview with Sabrina Salvati (@SabbySabs2) posted to Rumble on August 14, 2025.

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"And Trump has been openly building databases on people with Palantir. Of course most people know that they're doing that with ICE, but the administration announced not that long ago that they're doing it for everybody. And Palantir also manages all of your health data, because they contract extensively with hhs.

"So this is very concerning for a lot of reasons. One, one point on that I would point to is, held Trump in his first term. There was the spate of mass shootings I believe in the Latter Half of 2019. And Trump called on social media companies to stop shooting, stop shooters before they commit a crime and to basically flag what people were saying on social media and use that to determine if they, you know, if they, if there should be intervention before a crime might be committed.

"Actually William Barr, when he was in office the first time, created this program that legalized pre-crime in the United States. And I think I was like one of two people maybe that reported on that at the time. It was called deep. And there's been a few arrests under DEEP for people making Facebook posts and things like that, but not that many.

"But the legal framework has been there since you know, Trump round one, basically. But anyway, this pitch to that Trump made about having social media spy on its users and use like analytics to you know, bring about some sort of pre-crime society. He was being pitched at the time and he was interested in it, but it didn't ultimately happen, in creating this agency called HARPA, which was supposed to be like the health version of the Pentagon's DARPA and the, the program that they wanted to start with, the acronym was Safe Homes and it was basically about analyzing American social media posts for early warning signs of neuropsychiatric violence. And then based on that, would, would either you know, send people to a court ordered psychologist or physician or even you know, house arrest, without them having committed any crime.

"So now that we have Big Tech even more intertwined with Trump Round two, you know, people should really be paying attention to the stuff, especially now that Palantir, especially through the Doge, formerly led by Elon Musk Agency Has sort of embedded Palantir in even more aspects of the government than it was in before, including like the IRS and you know, mortgage stuff like Fannie Mae and all of that. You know, all have Palantir now. And then basically giving them the keys to the kingdom with a lot of you know, data that the Department of Treasury has about your finances in the irs and all of that, you know, all of this is going to go into this master database.

"And the goal of Palantir, just like it was with total information awareness, is about stopping crime before it happens. It's pre crime. And Palantir did that, you know, for a few years, several years, in police departments around the country piloting predictive policing programs which is pre- crime, in mainly low income minority neighborhoods, starting off in New Orleans. And now you have other companies besides Palantir that do this. There's one in LA called PredPol, and they have an accuracy of half a percent and they haven't gotten rid of the contract.

"So it's not really about better, more efficient policing. I mean that's what it's going to be sold as. It's basically the idea that was developed, you know, by the, the British for prison designs in the 1800s, the Panopticon. The idea that if people feel like they're constantly under watch and something and they could, you know, be you know, well, obviously out of the prison context, you could be put in prison for doing the wrong thing or whatever. You know, then people will police themselves if they're under constant, if they know they're under constant watch, they will police themselves, they will censor themselves, things of that nature. And I think ultimately that's the form of control it is about."

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Aug 16, 2025 · 13.2K Views