Gawker has made somewhat of a habit of publicizing the sexuality of private individuals like Anderson Cooper, Shepard Smith and even Apple CEO Tim Cook. He funded a team of lawyers to find and help ‘victims’ of the company’s coverage mount cases against Gawker.” The idea for legal team took shape “several years ago,” and according to Thiel, “One of my friends convinced me that if I didn’t do something, nobody would.” Real quick: Has Gawker outed anyone else besides Thiel? In his interview with the Times this week, Thiel said that the article about his personal life, combined with other stories published about his friends that “ruined people’s lives for no reason,” motivated the billionaire to “mount a clandestine war against Gawker. “I actually think it’s sort of the psychology of a terrorist, where it’s purely destructive and that Valleywag is the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda… I don’t understand the psychology of people who would kill themselves and blow up buildings, and I don’t understand people who would spend their lives being angry it just seems unhealthy.” It’s unknown how much Thiel cares specifically about Hogan, but his own privacy was invaded by Gawker back in 2007 when the site outted him in a story called “Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.” Since that time, Thiel has been unsparing in his criticism of the site, and in May 2009 compared the company’s practices to an act of terrorism: Why does Peter Thiel care about Gawker invading Hogan’s privacy? He is a California Republican delegate in support of Donald Trump, but strongly identifies as a Libertarian. Peter Thiel: Co-founder of Paypal, early investor in Facebook and co-founder of The Founders Fund and Mithril Capital Investment. Nick Denton: The CEO and co-founder of Gawker Media, a site known for its salacious brand of public-figure skewering journalism, but that also produces a lot of legitimate news stories.
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Hulk Hogan: Legendary professional wrestler and one-time reality TV star. And if you think a retired WWE entertainer’s sex life is too crass to waste your time on, you might want to dive in anyway to get abreast of the First Amendment implications of all this legal drama. So if you’ve read 100 articles on the topic over the past two days and are having trouble keeping everything straight-or if you haven’t read anything because it feels too daunting or too frivolous to care-here is your primer on the (almost) complete history of Thiel v. Image courtesy Getty Imagesīut with the revelation about Thiel’s involvement, the story starts a lot farther pack than 2012.
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Hogan during the trial against Gawker Media. Shortly thereafter, Hogan sued the media company, and the subsequent years-long legal battle “ended” in March when the wrestler was awarded $140 million in punitive and compensatory. When the initial invasion of privacy suit was the story, it started with a tape Gawker posted in 2012 of Hogan having sex with his former best friend’s ex-wife. ‘Without going into all the details, we would get in touch with the plaintiffs who otherwise would have accepted a pittance for a settlement, and they were obviously quite happy to have this sort of support.’” Then things got even more crazy yesterday after the New York Times ran an interview with Thiel in which he confirmed that he not only provided millions of dollars in financial support to Hogan’s lawsuit, but that it was part of a coordinated attack against Gawker Media.Īs per The Times, “He said that he hired a legal team several years ago to look for cases that he could help financially support.
Gawker in a whole new light by revealing that Silicon Valley power player Peter Thiel has been bankrolling the wrestler’s defense team. But on Tuesday, Forbes published an article that would cast Hogan v.
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