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Peter Thiel

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165 articles decelerating

Peter Thiel has appeared in 165 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Trump, Palantir, Thiel, Facebook.

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165
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Velocity
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Acceleration
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The Half-Life
On March 16: Thiel lobbied billionaires to undo the Giving Pledge, OpenAI's advisory council was overruled on adult content, and eight tech companies signed a n...

Coverage Timeline

2026-04-16
TechCrunch 3 related

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …

2026-04-15
TechCrunch 1 related

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …

2021-01-21
Engadget 23 related

Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski; Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey were among those supporting a pardon for Levandowski

Richard Lawler / Engadget :

2021-01-20
Engadget 19 related

Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski; Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey were among those supporting a pardon for Levandowski

Last year Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of stealing materials from Google, where he was an engineer for its self-driving car efforts …

2020-02-06
CNET 13 related

YouTube and Facebook send cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter in January

With Authoritarian Regimes James Hale / Tubefilter : YouTube Sends Cease-And-Desist To Facial Recognition Company That Scrapes Social Media Images For Law Enforcement Tristan Greene / The Next Web : F...

2019-09-12
Vox

Sources: federal investigators, including the FBI, are probing the conduct and practices of Mithril Capital, the VC firm co-founded by Peter Thiel

Mithril Capital raised over $1 billion on the name of Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's biggest celebrities.  Now federal investigators are looking under the hood. Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @voxdotcom ...

2017-11-25
BuzzFeed 4 related

Lawyers for Peter Thiel file a motion to block efforts that have prevented him from bidding on Gawker.com assets during bankruptcy proceeding

the news site he helped Hulk Hogan take down Tweets: Violet Blue / @violetblue : 2017 is Year of the Vengeful Billionaires. http://twitter.com/... Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce : “Whoever ends up buying ...

2017-11-24
BuzzFeed 4 related

Lawyers for Peter Thiel file a motion to block efforts that have prevented him from bidding on Gawker.com assets during bankruptcy proceeding

In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com …

2017-11-23
BuzzFeed 4 related

Lawyers for Peter Thiel file a motion to block efforts that have prevented him from bidding on Gawker.com assets during bankruptcy proceeding

In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com …

2017-01-12
Techdirt 4 related

Techdirt's existence is threatened by costs of fighting $15M libel suit brought by Shiva Ayyadurai, represented by Charles Harder, who won against Gawker

http://www.techdirt.com/... http://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Peter Thiel started this and someone should tell him it's his responsibility to end it http://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick...

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Peter Thiel has appeared in 140 Techmeme articles since February 2015. The biggest stories include Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker... and Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker.... Frequently covered alongside Trump, Thiel, Gawker, Facebook, and Valar Ventures. Coverage has shifted toward funding, consumer themes and away from developer.

Key Moments

2024Q2funding +100pts; competition -100pts
2024Q3developer +100pts; funding -100pts
2024Q4developer -100pts; funding +50pts

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