> If he is stronger than you are then he can force your Palantir to show you things of his choosing.

I mean, that's worse.

No, that’s normal. See also newspapers, radio news, television news, cable news, Facebook, Twitter, The Algorithm, etc, etc. It’s not like Tolkien invented a new thing here; the wicked Vizier who tells the King selective truths is a trope practically as old as time.