{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Peter Thiel Just Gave Other Billionaires a Dangerous Blueprint for Perverting Philanthropy", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/144969600715/", "html": "<a href=\"http://fusion.net/story/306927/peter-thiel-gawker-dangerous-blueprint/\">Peter Thiel Just Gave Other Billionaires a Dangerous Blueprint for Perverting Philanthropy</a>\n<blockquote><p><i>Nick Denton\u2019s brilliant stroke, going all the way back to Gawker\u2019s \norigins as Gawker Stalker, was to not even make pretense to the American\n tradition of Sulzbergerian evenhanded postwar monopoly journalism, but \nto go the British competitive no holds barred venomous one, all taking \nshots at each other, stirring up witch hunts to boost circulation&hellip;.</i></p><p><i>There\u2019s a reason British libel law is so strict, and that\u2019s to create some leverage to tamp things down when they start stepping on toes that matter.</i></p></blockquote><p>(<a href=\"/post/102580056373/\" target=\"_blank\">13/11/14</a>)<br/></p>"}