President Trump said Tuesday that his administration will “take a look” at businessman Peter Thiel’s allegations that Google’s work with China is “seemingly treasonous.”
, called Thiel “a great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone!” He added that “the Trump Administration will take a look!”
Thiel — who is a Facebook Inc. board member and a co-founder of data-mining firm Palantir Technologies Inc., which helps government agencies monitor people — singled out Google in his speech. He criticized it for agreeing to work closely with China, trying to get its search engine back into the country, while deciding to let lapse a U.S. Defense Department contract that gave the military access to Google’s artificial intelligence tools.
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