Forbes pulled a profile of three female leaders at Palantir hours after publishing it — allegedly due to the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sources told The Post.
The story, “Inside Palantir’s AI Braintrust: Meet The Women Transforming Retail, Government And Defense,” had been in the works for over a month before it was published online last Thursday, sources said.
It profiled three executives at the company: Anita Beveridge, Lauren Penneys and Shannon Clark and focused on “women inside the company driving impact across retail, the public sector and defense.”
However, it was taken down from Forbes’ website shortly after being posted, a highly unusual move for the publisher.
When Palantir — which has provided data analytics tools to ICE since 2013 — asked why it had been removed they were told Forbes “needed to provide additional context,” sources said.
Forbes then said it needed to include commentary about the company’s contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sources said.
Sources said Palantir was finally told the story was “too positive” and wouldn’t be reposted.
“Really? “What does it say when a story about women leading major organizations is deemed incomplete—unless it’s reframed around a political controversy they aren’t part of?,” One Palantir source noted. “Why is women’s leadership treated as contextual—something that needs justification or controversy—rather than a sufficient story on its own?”
However, it resurfaced on Monday with added commentary on Palantir’s relationship with ICE.
A paragraph at the top now states, “Palantir commands headlines both for its technology sector performance and for controversy over its high-profile contracts — such as its work with US immigration enforcement, including ICE, which drew calls for cessation from Amnesty International and involvement in hot-button issues of surveillance, privacy and human rights.”
A Forbes spokesperson told The Post the story had been pulled back for re-editing, and to add sourcing and context.
The spokesperson also pointed out Forbes covers Palantir “regularly and will continue to do so,” noting previous articles and how CEO and co-founder Alex Karp was on the magazine’s cover in 2013.
Leftist anti-ICE protesters have protested against the agency undertaking raids to arrest illegal immigrants in their cities. The agency uses Palantir’s technology to help them track those immigrants down.
Palantir recently won a $30 million contract in April 2025 to build “ImmigrationOS,” an AI-powered surveillance platform that helps prioritize deportation targets and track immigration enforcement operations in near real-time.
The company has been clear that it does not own or sell personal data, but creates software which enables companies to manage and use data which they already have.
