Palantir Technologies - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Palantir Technologies is Medium Risk.

Palantir Technologies is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	Medium Risk
Funding	Medium Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Palantir Technologies integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Climate Pledge: “Palantir Technologies pledges: We will seek to reduce or eliminate emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3” (1). From its Supplier Code of Conduct: “We expect Supplier to take steps to monitor and document greenhouse gas emissions and look for appropriate methods to improve its energy efficiency and minimize its greenhouse gas emissions” (2). The company promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Supplier Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policy (3). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (4).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Palantir Technologies does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. The company focuses on funding research projects in information technology, the physical sciences, philosophy, the law, and international affairs (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Palantir Technologies requires its employees to take unconscious bias and inclusion training (1). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Palantir Technologies advocates for transgenderism. In its “2022 UK Gender Pay Gap Report,” the company acknowledges “that gender identities exist outside of the binary and recognizes self-identified genders. As part of our commitment to creating an inclusive environment, we encourage employees to share their pronouns and update their employee demographic data with their self-identified gender” (1). Palantir achieved carbon neutrality in 2021 (2). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2022 UK Gender Pay Gap Report: “A diverse workforce is crucial to encouraging the broadest and fullest range of ideas
and creating innovation. As Palantir continues to grow, building a culture of inclusion is
even more critical to the success of our business” (3). Otherwise, the company has not supported ideological causes or policies (4).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Palantir Technologies is a sponsor of America250, a bipartisan initiative created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026 (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2)(3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Palantir Technologies has not used its PAC donations or lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).