It’s happening. It’s really happening:
Reuters: Peter Thiel has made an offer to buy Gawker
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/jyarvin/status/951558560852447234
Peter Thiel, who famously bankrupted Gawker, is now attempting to buy the site and its archive of articles https://t.co/BxMwlrVZTm pic.twitter.com/TJAmVLLoYU
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) January 11, 2018
More:
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made an offer for Gawker, hoping to overcome legal hurdles and rival bidders for the online news site the billionaire helped shutter by funding litigation against it, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Gawker, which has been inactive for more than a year, is conducting an auction of its remaining assets, including its domain names and nearly 200,000 archived articles. Most of its assets, including its sister pages Deadspin, a sports site, and Jezebel, a feminist blog, were bought in 2016 for $135 million by media company Univision Holdings Inc.
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Thiel funded former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker after the site published a sex tape featuring Hogan. The former wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, won a $140 million judgment against the site, and later settled for $31 million.
Gawker in 2007 published a story about Thiel’s homosexuality.
Justice doesn’t get much more poetic than that. But Glenn Greenwald finds all this very disturbing, you guys:
In the scheme of current threats to press freedom, having billionaires secretly fund lawsuits to destroy media outlets that report negatively on them, then – like vultures – buy the website carcass in order to permanently delete all negative stories, is quite high on the list. https://t.co/F54zEvmc5H
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 11, 2018
This is dumb, but at least it's poorly written. https://t.co/Cg1xOzM2bV
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) January 11, 2018
Ha!
Ah feck off… they forcibly outed him, they werent the good guys and he only sought justice through the courts
— Tom Murphy and 1,573 others (@DeVore) January 11, 2018
You're confusing character-smearing lies for journalism. https://t.co/cAfYItlpqL
— Weird Chick (@WyrdChyk) January 11, 2018
Greenwald should really save his breath.
One day apart. pic.twitter.com/3b4BE7nE6y
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) January 11, 2018
"People mistreat you and then claim they were doing something innocuous."
"All Gawker did was criticize Peter Thiel."
Yeah, alright Glenn.
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) January 11, 2018
idk what you're talking about, Gawker did nothing wrong, and then a jury randomly ordered them to pay a man $115 million, that's what happened
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 11, 2018
Greenwald can huff and puff as much as he wants. Doesn’t change the fact that Thiel can do what he wants with his money.
What a hero https://t.co/HQ0SgRsWZe
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/DanFosterType/status/951561853267791872
Make the rubble bounce. https://t.co/JSDv6JAYc3
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) January 11, 2018
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