![]() ![]() He thought that no one else’s business should involve him being outed or not, and he didn’t consider himself a public figure despite having won big investments in companies like PayPal and Facebook. He published an article about tech investor Peter Thiel being gay too Thiel hadn’t wanted his sexuality to be made public because he feared offending his conservative clients. In 2007, Owen Thomas came out on social media as gay. The company was sued by many people who were unhappy with the things that Gawker wrote about them, but those cases never went to court. ![]() It had a low standard and produced a lot of content, but it also got a lot of traffic. The company’s culture encourages negativity, and the pace of work is so fast that people don’t have time to think about what they’re writing before they post it online. It has a structure where writers are encouraged to publish stories that attract readers, which sometimes means publishing things that aren’t necessarily ethical. Gawker is a website that publishes news and gossip. The odds of winning were long, but they succeeded in taking down the media site. It took nearly 10 years to plan the attack, which involved Hogan suing Gawker over a sex tape. A conspiracy was carried out by Peter Thiel, a billionaire and Hulk Hogan against Gawker. ![]()
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