Overview

• Thiel began a four-part lecture series at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, with the first event held Monday.
• Roughly 50 demonstrators gathered outside, some in devil masks or mock satanist costumes, holding satirical signs.
• Protesters criticized Palantir’s role in government data analysis and surveillance and questioned Thiel’s influence in politics.
• In a recent New York Times podcast, Thiel described the Antichrist as a metaphor for a one-world, rights-limited regime tied to technological stagnation.
• Gizmodo reports the series was organized by the ACTS 17 Collective, which courts Silicon Valley leaders to discuss Christian faith.