"Nobody Speak": New Documentary Probes Billionaire Peter Thiel's Destruction of News Outlet Gawker
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Last year, the digital media outlet Gawker declared bankruptcy and put itself up for sale after it was ordered to pay $140 million in a lawsuit for publishing the sex tape of wrestler Hulk Hogan. Hogan’s lawsuit was financially backed by Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, who was outed as gay by a now-defunct Gawker blog. The case is now the focus of a new movie premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. We speak to Brian Knappenberger, the director of "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press." He previously directed "The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" and "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists," about the hacker collective Anonymous.
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