so, basically, Thiel's Palantir and the Mercers' Cambridge Analytica, along with Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook —and the blessing of daddy Putin's deep kleptocratic pockets—, all worked together & succeeded in stealing the 2016 elections.
when i call the 2016 elections the first coup, this is what i mean.
Spy Contractor’s Idea Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Facebook Data - The New York Times