An event, organised by a network co-founded by controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel has set its sights on Ireland.<\/p>\n
Hosted by the Dialog group, it is due to take place in The Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow in August.<\/p>\n
Mr Thiel is a backer of US President Donald Trump and co-founder of Palantir, an AI company which has worked with ICE, the Israeli military, and US military.<\/p>\n
Prime Time’s Jack McCarron tells Behind the Story they have obtained a copy of details of some of those invited to attend the Wicklow event.<\/p>\n
He said some of those on the list include senior figures from big tech companies such as Open AI, Anthropic, Google and YouTube – alongside “politicians, military leaders, investors, academics and media personalities”.<\/p>\n
Read more: Why is tech bro Peter Thiel talking about the Antichrist?<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n Mr McCarron said there are concerns around such conferences, as people do not know what goes on.<\/p>\n “I think that\u2019s the reason this story has got so much attention – it is that secrecy and confidentiality.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s influential people who are getting facetime with politicians, who ultimately enact policy in whatever countries they\u2019re from,” he added.<\/p>\n Among those on the list are Democratic and Republican US politicians, as well as MPs from Finland and Denmark, alongside a former British MP.<\/p>\n Fran and Eamon also discuss the big stories of the week – including the by-election victory for Andy Burnham in the UK and why the World Cup is making headlines both on and off the soccer pitch.<\/p>\n You can listen to Behind the Story on the RT\u00c9 Radio Player.<\/p>\n You can also find episodes on Apple here<\/a>, or on Spotify here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An event, organised by a network co-founded by controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel has set its sights on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508303","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=508303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}