Palantir is an ai tool that assists analysts in datamining relevant information from various massive databases. The human analyst helps the ai algo's by giving it context and feedback on the information product it generates.
Its pretty much what we do here in a crowdsourced way. If we had access to this kind of tool to use over public record databases, we would be deadly.
Lindsay Graham's comments and questions on Facebook competition and monopoly are probably the most pointed part of this entire hearing. He could have went harder, but he didn't completely bitch out like i had expected.
Instagram is used as a marketing platform for prostitution/escorting. Find a pretty girl and send a private message asking for a referral to their booking agent for private personal appearances. Its an open secret among the elite. Those girls are not getting flown around to take pictures on yachts and island beach's to do product placement ads.
Fox faked a poll this morning about support for bombing syria. 100k pro-syria votes showed up in a span of 30 min flipping the poll results from 70% against to 70% for. /pol/ was on top of it.