The Trump administration wants to merge all of our data across government agencies. And it's asked a controversial company to help.

This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

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