![]() ![]() Thiel - the preeminent entrepreneur, venture capitalist and political activist, best known for co-founding PayPal and Palantir Technologies - was driven to bring down Gawker, not only because of a story they ran in 2008 entitled ‘Peter Thiel is totally gay, people’, but because he felt that Gawker’s brand of clickbait journalism would censor the free exchange of ideas, stifle progress and ultimately drive more would-be entrepreneurs and world-changers to depression and suicide. ![]() Peter Thiel’s takedown of the once notorious Gawker Media has served as a modern-day case study on the ages-old conspiracy, and how to successfully carry one out. ![]()
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