ytene writes: Danika Fears over at The Daily Beast carries some pretty explosive reporting, describing how Peter Thiel — of Palantir infamy — claims in a new biography by Max Chafkin that Mark Zuckerberg agreed to push “State-Sanctioned Conservatism” in return for the Trump administration steering clear of any “heavy-handed regulations.” This could well be one of those situations where it doesn’t matter if the core claim is true or false — because either way this is going to get ugly. The claims were made in the book “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power.” Zuckerberg denied the existence of a deal, saying that was “pretty ridiculous.”
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