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Conspiracy
336 pages, 2018
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In 2007, Gawker published an anonymous post outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. But Thiel didn't like how he was portrayed in the post, so he masterminded a plan that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy, and the firing of its CEO and founder Nick Denton. Only later would the world learn that this demise was not incidental.




