hand"; hedge fund operations "not nearly regulated"
Wheeler (Jan 2026) Signals documented Thiel-Epstein ties are being strategically held in reserve
Brown (April 2026)Maps the complete network: Epstein → Thiel → Giesea → Weev → memetic warfare infrastructure → Clearview AI → ICE

👉The documented record shows:
#Thiel was not just acquainted with #Epstein—he was actively investing in operatives (#weev, #Giesea) who were explicitly developing tactics for influence @skykiss @emptywheel

and #PeterThiel" (#PeterJukes) — connecting #Epstein, #Thiel, #Bannon, #Farage, and #Russian money👈

"Jeffrey Epstein's #4chan Plan" (#MattGallagher) — "The sex-trafficker's fingerprints are all over the early rise of the alt-right and the far-right conspiracy movements that would follow"

*Summary: All Three Sources Converge*

Source Finding #Epstein Email (Nov 2014)
Thiel "bankrolling" weev for regulatory arbitrage
Weev's Own Statements (May 2014)
Direct meeting with "Thiel's right @skykiss

👉**#ClearviewAI– the facial recognition company that subsequently expanded the capabilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) – launched in 2018, seed-funded by #Thiel, operating under #Johnson's #Giesea-funded software framework #WeSearchr, and represented in legal matters by #Aurenheimer's longtime lawyer, #TorEkeland.👈**"

3. Related Byline Times Coverage

The #Brown article links to two companion pieces:

"In #Putin's Orbit: The #Crypto Politics of 👉#JeffreyEpstein
@skykiss

connected the #PayPal and #Palantir milieu around #Thiel to the alt-right he helped create and harness."

*The 2016 #Bitcoin Vote + Epstein-Thiel Alignment*

**#Brown provides a critical new piece:** #Epstein writing directly to Thiel in 2016 about political strategy:

"In 2016, #JeffreyEpstein wrote to #PeterThiel summarising what he saw as the political opportunity opened by the #Brexit vote: **👉'return to tribalism. counter to globalisation.👈 amazing new @skykiss @emptywheel

developing was already being executed by #Auernheimer aka #Weev, reportedly funded by #Thiel:

**'I've heard rumors that Thiel (who I believe you know) was bankrolling this dude ... to do similar things.'**"

Weev's Confirmation (May 2014 - Six Months Earlier)

Brown documents #Auernheimer's own statements confirming the #Thiel relationship:

"Auernheimer had effectively confirmed his relationship with Thiel six months earlier in what he believed to be a private @skykiss @emptywheel

@emptywheel

*#MarcyWheeler on Epstein-Thiel Connections? *

#Wheeler does NOT yet seem tohave a dedicated deep investigation of the #Thiel-#Epstein-#Weev triangle, but 👉she has flagged it strategically in her January 2026 strategic planning memo "Where We Go from Here":

"Treat Epstein as the base layer... and remember that there needs to be a direction beyond #Epstein as well, a direction which incorporates the #oligarchs who are still key players in #Trump's network 👈

#HPsKommentar
#DEpol

(6/6)

...👉Man kontrastiere das mit den #USA und dem wohl korruptesten und faschistoidischtem Präsidenten der Geschichte und der de facto #Machtübernahme der 4 Gewalten durch #Oligarchen rund um die #HeritageFoundation (#Project2025) sowie die #Technofeudalisten um #Musk, #Thiel, #Ellison, #Zuckerberg, und andere*. 👈

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fortune.com/2025/09/05/trump-t…

Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner—and here’s Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there

From Gates to Zuckerberg, Trump hosted dozens of Silicon Valley icons in the newly renovated Rose Garden.

^{Dave Smith (Fortune)}