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The jury said $55 million was for economic damages and $60 million for emotional distress. Hogan was awarded a $115 million verdict in his case against Gawker after the jury ruled unanimously in his favor Friday.

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Watch the full interview on ' Good Morning America' Wednesday at 7 a.m.

But it was just so overwhelming when I knew that we had won and people believed me. I couldn't hear anything except the judge going, ‘yes’ to that or ‘yes’ to this or ‘yes’ for damages. But with Thiel, who sits on Facebook’s board, sparking a new row over press freedom, Facebook may have to do more to convince a shaky media it is on their side.“And as I tried to not snort again, just.water just came pouring out of my eyes. On Tuesday, Facebook confirmed it would change how its Trending Topics work to avoid allegations of bias. The latter story could merge with this one.

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“Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton’s secret email account, Bill Cosby’s history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise’s role within Scientology, the NFL cover-up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.” Nick Denton, Gawker’s founder, responded to Thiel by listing a number of the stories of undeniable news value that Gawker has broken over the years. If the entire media was more or less like this, this would be like trying to boil the ocean.” In a way, if I didn’t think Gawker was unique, I wouldn’t have done any of this. The way I’ve thought about this is that Gawker has been a singularly terrible bully. He added: “It’s not like it is some sort of speaking truth to power or something going on here. It’s precisely because I respect journalists that I do not believe they are endangered by fighting back against Gawker.

I think much more highly of journalists than that. He told the New York Times: “I refuse to believe that journalism means massive privacy violations. Thiel doesn’t believe his political views clash with his attempt to “deter” Gawker and others from publishing the stories they do. He will be one of Donald Trump’s delegates to the Republican national congress if, as expected, the politician wins the California primary in two weeks’ time. He has also been a large donor to the Republican party, having financially supported Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign. He has funded movements hoping to build independent nations on boats in the Pacific aiming to encourage students to drop out of university and start a company and advocating for reduced immigration to the US. But alongside his business interests, Thiel is also known for his outlandish political views. After making his name as a co-founder of PayPal, he went on to make his fortune as a venture capitalist, backing companies including Facebook in their early days. Thiel is a controversial figure, even among Silicon Valley billionaires. They usually attack less prominent, far less wealthy people that simply can’t defend themselves … Even someone like Terry Bollea who is a millionaire and famous and a successful person didn’t quite have the resources to do this alone.” “Most of the people they attack are not people in my category. “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. The story about his own sexuality was one of many that Thiel describes as having “ruined people’s lives for no reason”, and drove him, he says, to help fund “victims” of the site in mounting legal cases against Gawker. Publicly confirming his funding of the Bollea case after a report by Forbes, Thiel told the New York Times “it’s less about revenge and more about specific deterrence”. In 2007 Gawker had published a story revealing Thiel was gay. Unknown to the jury or public, Thiel had secretly bankrolled Bollea’s legal case to the tune of about $10m.

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