5/10/2023 0 Comments Conspiracy ryan holiday review![]() A.īut in Conspiracy, we as readers are privy to enjoy the killing (and suicide) of Gawker from even higher vantage point than Thiel himself, in part due to the author's exclusive access to Nick Denton and other Gawker team members, and more importantly because of the author's ability to draw both philosophical and tactical parallels with both ancient and contemporary strategists of war, sports, and politics. Surreal, disturbing, and potentially instructive, the story of Thiel's secret plans to totally and legally destroy one of the most powerful and ruthless media companies of the 21st century is brought into sunlight in a very dark time for the media landscape-a time that includes fake news, #gamergate and Trump, Breitbart and Salon, Antifa and Anonymous.Īs newsworthy and contemporary as the events in Conspiracyare, Ryan Holiday's commentary places them into a dramatic, overarching narrative-a narrative largely crafted by Peter Thiel, his camouflaged legal team, and the (in)famous, anonymous, ex-Gawker employee known as Mr. ![]() ![]() "These two seemingly unrelated events," author Ryan Holiday writes in Conspiracy, "were in fact the bookends of a nearly decade-long plot masterminded by Thiel." ![]() Nine years later in 2016, Gawker declares bankruptcy, slammed with a $140 million judgement after publishing an illegally recorded sex tape of Hulk Hogan. In 2007, Gawker outs Peter Thiel, Facebook's first investor and Paypal cofounder, as gay. ![]()
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