The Fake Medicare Hack, Netanyahu’s UN Walkout and Palantir’s Data Grab | Scam of the Week

by | Sep 27, 2026 | The West Report


An OpenAI bot accessed a Medicare portal in June, exposing health spending data with no private records taken, but the story surfaces this week just as Netanyahu’s UN speech triggers a 77-delegation walkout.

Palantir already holds data from 25 government agencies, while Cellebrite clones phones at airports. Murdoch executive Siobhan McKenna is appointed Australia’s new Consul-General in New York, and the Nine Network reveals a KKK Grand Wizard has endorsed Pauline Hanson.
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Chapters:
00:00 Opening
00:41 UN Walkout
02:46 Medicare Breach
05:21 Palantir & Cellebrite
07:15 Angus Taylor
08:13 Consul McKenna
09:45 Hanson & the KKK
11:19 Rowland’s Hilton Bill
11:47 Victorian Potholes
12:57 NDIS & Astroturfing

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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.

 

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