Thiel said he wrote the article quickly and sent it to a colleague to ask whether anything in it was too controversial.
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Reasoning
How quickly Thiel wrote the article and what he asked a colleague are private details only he or the colleague would know.
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Peter Thiel, “Thiel said he wrote the article quickly and sent it to a colleague to ask whether anything in it was too controversial.” (said 25 September 2026). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_ad8cc657f3a2, method 0.1.0+3e03e2df, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ad8cc657f3a2
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