![]() ![]() ![]() The verdict would stun the world and so would peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. In 2007, a short blog post on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley gossip site of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. After a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, the settlement of dollar 140million in favour of Hogan ended it. from Ryan Holiday: Peter Thiel and the Gawker Conspiracy held on March 26, 2018. Still furious at an article that hadouted him ten years previously and increasingly disgusted at gawker's unscrupulous reporting methods, Thiel had spent nearly a decade meticulously plotting a conspiracy that would lead to the demise of gawker and its founder, nick Denton. Peter Thiel, Paypal founder and billionaire investor, had masterminded the whole thing. ![]() After countless other lawsuits it seemed that gawker had finally run out of luck. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. ![]() In 2016, one of the giants of modern journalism fell, Gawker media, infamous for saying what other outlets wouldn't say, was sued for publishing hulk Hogan's sex tape, lost the case and went bust. ![]()
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