Peter Thiel has already admitted toย bankrolling lawsuits with the purpose of putting Gawker Media out of business, but the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) wants to know what else the Silicon Valley billionaire is hiding.
“Peter Thiel has all but confessed that his primary objective is Gawker’s demise. Plutocrats already have outsized power in this country, and we cannot allow them to use their vast fortunes to silence media companies,” WGAE said in a statement.
The statement continues: “We cannot let Peter Thiel heedlessly destroy one of the most original, intrepid digital media companies in modern journalism — regardless of whether or not we like everything that gets published there.