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Palantir has been inside the IRS since 2017, and they just built a tool called SNAP that scores every American taxpayer and generates a ranked list of who the government should target next for audits, collections, and criminal investigations. No human is making that call anymore.

An algorithm is.

The IRS’s own top lawyer reviewed what was happening, said it had multiple legal violations, refused to comply, and was removed from his position two days later.

There’s a vote next week that decides whether the government can keep buying your financial and location data without ever going before a judge. I put two things you can do right now at the end of the video. 

Share this before April 13.

Apr 9
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