{"id":496968,"date":"2026-06-13T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:07:09","slug":"palantir-loses-legal-challenge-to-force-swiss-magazine-to-publish-responses-palantir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496968\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses | Palantir"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US technology company Palantir<\/a> has lost a legal challenge to force a Swiss independent magazine to publish its responses to articles about how the Swiss government rejected its services.<\/p>\n

The data analytics company lost on 22 out of 23 counts of the suit. In a ruling on Friday, Zurich\u2019s commercial court dismissed the majority of counterstatement requests filed by the company and its Swiss subsidiary finding that only a single passage in one article warranted a published response from the company.<\/p>\n

The one-year investigation published in December \u2013 conducted by Republik and the Swiss research collective WAV \u2013 was one of the first to tell a story about Palantir that was a \u201cfailure narrative\u201d, the journalists involved in the investigation said.<\/p>\n

Over the course of a year, they filed dozens of freedom of information requests and found out that the spy-tech firm, though it had been in Switzerland<\/a> for nearly four years, had not managed to win any government contracts.<\/p>\n

It was this narrative \u2013 that Palantir could not sell its products to Switzerland \u2013 that prompted the legal action, the journalists said.<\/p>\n

The articles made waves across Europe<\/a>, prompting British MPs and officials in other governments to question whether its technology was necessary for them, although Palantir said the Swiss government was not a significant target for its regional business growth.<\/p>\n

The journalists said they had interviewed company executives and sent a full list of questions before publication, but that the company demanded they print a detailed rebuttal with a list of points that the journalists said went beyond the scope of their investigation. When the magazine refused, Palantir filed a lawsuit in a Swiss commercial court demanding that it did so. While Swiss media law allows the subjects of a story to request a right of reply, this has caveats: the right of reply has to be concise and stick to the facts of the story.<\/p>\n

The court on Friday ordered Palantir to bear 95% of the 9,000 Swiss francs ($11,300; \u00a38,400) court costs and to pay Republik 9,900 francs in legal expenses.<\/p>\n

Neither Republik nor WAV is a large outlet; the court case took up a significant portion of their resources.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Steiner, co-founder of WAV and one of the investigators, said: \u201cIt was a lot of work and time invested. After four months waiting for a verdict, it\u2019s good to have such a ruling now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balz Oertli, a journalist with WAV research collective, said: \u201cWe invested a great deal of effort into this case, and we are very pleased with the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sole exception in the case concerned a statement in Republik\u2019s article, Why Palantir is becoming a risk for Switzerland<\/a>, reporting that Palantir\u2019s Foundry software platform had originally been developed for US counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The court ordered Republik to publish a short counterstatement from the company disputing that claim.<\/p>\n

Palantir said in a statement reported by the Financial Times: \u201cWe welcome that the Zurich commercial court confirmed our right to publish a counterstatement. It\u2019s a critical part of open debate in our society to hear both sides on important topics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US technology company Palantir has lost a legal challenge to force a Swiss independent magazine to publish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-496968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}