New York Times: Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, has spent about $10 million to help the wrestler Hulk Hogan sue Gawker. “It’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence,” he said. “I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest. I thought it was worth fighting back. I would underscore that I don’t expect to make any money from this. This is not a business venture.”