He supposedly focused on foreign influence operations.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7041599

Peter Thiel was reportedly an FBI informant::Far-right blogger Charles Johnson and others allegedly outed venture capitalist and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel as an FBI informant.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      He’ll inform only when it suits his own ends, and never out of a sense of justice or patriotism, or a want of walking around money.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Don’t romanticize him choosing to be a snitch… He wasn’t even a single agent working for the FBI!

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I wasn’t trying to romanticise him, rather I was suggesting that he’d be trying to play the FBI in some way or another.