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Why are Soros and Thiel funding Compact?

What could two capitalist oligarchs possibly have in common?

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Carl Beijer
Oct 23, 2024
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Peter Thiel and George Soros have invested money in Compact Magazine according to a new piece in Vanity Fair. Thiel for his part denies it, but his spokesman hedges that he “couldn’t rule out the possibility that an entity Thiel funds has in turn donated to the magazine”; so this probably …

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