Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike

Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co-founder, said the February U.S. strike on a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, that killed over 150 children, may have stemmed from a single bad decision amid many good ones. He claimed Iran could have lured U.S. forces into targeting the school, that Palantir’s technology was over-reliant, and that Iran might have disguised targets to gain sympathy. Lonsdale noted U.S. officials later blamed Palantir for the strike and called for new laws to limit defense companies’ misuse of technology.