Hulk Hogan, media ethics and the battling Internet moguls

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Hari Sreenivasan talks to Wired’s Jason Tanz for more on the case and its implications.

When Hulk Hogan won $140 million in court from millionaire Nick Denton’s Gawker Media after it published video of him having sex, the verdict raised serious questions about journalistic ethics. Hogan’s suit was funded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal who Gawker outed as gay a decade earlier. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Wired’s Jason Tanz for more on the case and its implications.

AIR DATE 5/30/16

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