5/19/2023 0 Comments Conspiracy ryan holiday review![]() ![]() He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit – until it was too late. What happens when a conspiracy theory is real Mike Cernovich reviews Ryan Holidays book about the Gawker lawsuit, while also examining Peter Thiels thinking in Zero to One. ![]() Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend’s wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of page views and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Only later would the world learn that Gawker’s demise was not incidental – it had been masterminded by Thiel.įor years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he’d come to call the “Gawker Problem”. ![]() This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker’s CEO and founder, out of a job. Holiday’s treatment of Gamergate in Conspiracy is troublingly brief. What happens when a conspiracy theory is real Mike Cernovich reviews Ryan Holiday's book about the Gawker lawsuit, while also examining Peter Thiel's thinking in Zero to One. Thiel’s sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn’t consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. ![]() In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. ![]()
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