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.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
    5·
    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
      31·
      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.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nl
        4·
        1 year ago

        I get what you’re saying, but he can’t “play” the FBI because he was never an agent. Information flows one way: he informs them, and they pay him. I just want to make that clear for others…

      • anachronistEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thiel would sing like a canary.

        Most people work for the FBI because they have dirt on them.