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020 _a9781788280150
082 _a364.256 GR CO
100 _aGreig, Charlotte
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245 _aConspiracy :
_bhistory's greatest plots, collusions & cover ups
_cCharlotte Greig ; Nigel Cawthorne
260 _aNew York, New York :
_cc2018.
_bArcturus Publishing Limited,
300 _aviii, 304 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
520 _a"In 2007, a short blog post on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. 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. For years, Thiel searched for a solution to what he'd come to call the 'Gawker Problem.' When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk 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. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. 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 lawsuits --until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture?"--Publisher's website.
650 _xIndustries
_946809
650 _xJournalism
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650 _aHogan, Hulk,
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650 _aThiel, Peter, 1967-
_y1953-
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650 _aThiel, Peter A.
_930842
650 _aVendetta
_vUnited States
_922682
700 _aCawthorne, Nigel,
_eContributions by
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856 _uhttps://uowd.box.com/s/90z38a4n05g6hz1hq9d5myqrd3wywrsw
_zLocation Map
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