Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Sparks Controversy with Op-Ed on Trump’s Plans for the Deep State
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has sparked internal warfare in a major newsroom after an op-ed he wrote concerning Trump’s plans for the deep state in US politics. The 57-year-old penned a piece named “A Time for Truth and Reconciliation” for the Financial Times, discussing how the internet and the “pre-internet custodians of secrets” have left Americans in the dark about many contentious topics over the years.
Thiel, a Trump supporter, wrote about the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC), referring to media organizations, bureaucracies, universities, and government-funded non-profit, citizen-based groups that “traditionally delimited public conversation.” He referenced alleged secrets surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and how President-elect Donald Trump should answer the questions of the American people.
Thiel also referenced other times the American people have been allegedly left in the dark, including Jeffrey Epstein’s prison suicide in 2019 and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He called for the soon-to-be President to hand over answers to these questions, drawing a range of criticism.
Financial Times columnist Edward Luce described the piece as “inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic,” while others commented that the article was “beyond nuts” and that Thiel had “outs himself as a conspiracy theorist.” However, some readers praised the article, saying it provided a “salutary example of what happens to your mind when your information diet does not distinguish between fact and opinion.”
