Nick Denton: 'The Saga Is Over'

Breaking: Gawker Expected to Settle With Hulk Hogan (and Peter Thiel) https://t.co/CANOMDaxFC via @law_newz pic.twitter.com/DsDNMXudVL

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Then came a post on Medium by one of the platform’s “original bloggers,” Nick Denton. Under the headline “A Hard Peace,” Denton touches on the terms of Gawker Media’s settlement with Hulk Hogan, which include the removal of three Gawker articles. He also notes a bittersweet courtroom aspect of the negotiated arrangement to bring to a close a Peter Thiel-funded nightmare:

Yes, we were confident the appeals court would reduce or eliminate the runaway Florida judgment against Gawker, the writer of the Hogan story and myself personally.