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Elon Musk's DOGE effort to dismantle federal air traffic control has collapsed, leaving Palantir in position to take over critical infrastructure. The move appears to benefit Peter Thiel's surveillance company.
Elon Musk's effort to dismantle the FAA through DOGE failed to achieve its goals, but the outcome is equally consequential: Peter Thiel's surveillance company Palantir is now positioned to oversee a critical infrastructure overhaul of the air traffic system. The move consolidates control of a core national system into private hands.
This looks like a consolidation play disguised as reform failure. Rather than fix what Musk's approach broke, the administration is handing air traffic management to a defense contractor with deep ties to the Trump ecosystem. Palantir handling infrastructure that millions depend on daily represents a dramatic privatization of a public system.
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