The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
When we are told (glibly) by junior health ministers that the contract with #Palantir for the #NHS #FDP means that we 'own all the data', this is the bit they are fundamentally not understanding:
The data STRUCTURE is riddled with Palantir-specific references.
medconfidential.org/2026/critica...
Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop.
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This. I also fear Palantir own the ontologies that describe how each NHS Trust's data model maps onto the NHS Canonical Data Model. Nice looking lock-in you've got there, vendor. Grrr.
When we are told (glibly) by junior health ministers that the contract with #Palantir for the #NHS #FDP means that we 'own all the data', this is the bit they are fundamentally not understanding:
The data STRUCTURE is riddled with Palantir-specific references.
medconfidential.org/2026/critica...