![]() ![]() ![]() The best thing about this book is that it will make you think about a lot of issues. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious - and successful - secret plots in recent memory. In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by exclusive interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean - for free speech? For privacy? For culture? The verdict would stun the world, and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. After a multiyear proxy war through the Florida legal system, the settlement of $140 million in favour of Hogan ended it. Still furious at an article that had outed him 10 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 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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