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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The old Peter Thiel Special

Wonder how many coked up rapists are involved in this story.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Relevant bit so you don’t have to dig in the article like I just did:

Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and former Facebook board member, paid $10 million to help finance lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the Bollea lawsuit. The idea had been brought to him by Australian businessman Aron D'Souza. Thiel called his financial support of Bollea's case "one of my greater philanthropic things that I've done."[34][35][36] Gawker had published an article in 2007 outing Thiel as gay.[37][38]