More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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A trove of internal records from a secret society for powerful figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.

The group, called Dialog, is a private, invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. It convenes US officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats. Dialog has spent two decades declining to disclose its members.

A directory in the website’s code was first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. Known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, crimew tells WIRED the directory surfaced via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents.

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Update 6/16/2026, 5:47 pm EDT: WIRED updated this article to correct a conflation of two people named Jeff Epstein. A small revision was also made to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative.

    Note the wording: revision, not correction. So they allowed the subject of the piece a role in editorial decisionmaking. That’s a really fucking shitty look, Wired.

  • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    My strong opinions on the matter could disrupt the neoliberal conformity and immobilism that beehaw calls well-being.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    So they’ve been working together and planning all this shit for at least 20 years, you think? *idly sharpens guillotine*

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I got a linked in job offer come to me and their pro talking points was Peter Thiel was a board member. So instant delete. Like how tone def are recruiters

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      3 hours ago

      was thiel one of the founders/financiers of that company. i know thiel likes to be in the shadows while actually controlling his companies.

    • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      I remember watching Bond movies as a kid and wondering “where did that evil supervillian get all these henchmen?” Turns out the answer all-along was “linkedin.”.

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Like how tone def are recruiters

      They just ate the illusions capitalism threw at them. You’d be surprised about the number of people who simply don’t care that their lives are run by shadow elites who destroy the world as long as they can watch TV and go on holidays.

      Panem et circenses, 2000 years later, still works. You just need to make people believe they’re the winners of capitalism and they’ll support every ugly bit of it.

      • aquafunkalisticbootywhap@lemmy.sdf.org
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        21 hours ago

        It doesnt hurt when they also use their mountains of cash and control of mass media and news production and outlets to champion voices supporting them, silence dissenting voices, stoke nationalism and xenophobia, and generally bend and warp popular culture to make fun of those who spend their time learning and doing well in school, educating themselves about history, gathering as workers, making patient, informed purchases-

        the whole thing collapses when you look behind the curtain, everyone just hopes it’s not that bad, that the next big one happens after they die, and their kids can’t come knocking on their door to ask what the actual fuck were they thinking

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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          1 day ago

          there are a bunch of other congressmen to. not really surprised bryan johnson is on there, the freak is has drank the koolaid on “blood boy” that thiel is also into(getting blood from his hot young male model who got defenestrated, and likely using clavicular now), bryan johnson basically gets young blood from his son and injects it to himself. he really believes his own bs/pseudoscience of staying young.