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Sebastian Brommersma

Sebastian Brommersma

Freelance investigative journalist at Follow the Money focusing on technology, surveillance, and data security, based in Edinburgh. Former IP lawyer.

Jul 1, 2026

7:48
What exactly did you investigate about that?
7:50
It started with ABP, the very large Dutch pension fund.
7:55
Yeah.
7:56
So it's the pension fund for all the civil servants, and it's compulsory.
8:01
To their credit, you can exactly see what companies they've invested in.
8:06
And I went through them and I spotted Palantir suddenly on the list.
8:09
They went from zero to $625 million in stock value.
9:36
But everyone was very keen to see, well, what are they actually doing in our country? Like who is pouring money into this? Especially in other countries where you have like these mandatory pension funds, for instance, they also wanted to know like what's going on.

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