Peter Thiel’s Protégé Threatens an Arizona News Outlet With the Gawker Treatment

For Blake Masters, a Peter Thiel protégé running in Arizona’s GOP Senate primary, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. On Monday, Masters threatened to sue the Arizona Mirror and senior reporter Dillon Rosenblatt, suggesting he would deploy the same legal tactics that Thiel used to bankrupt Gawker Media. “If I get any free time after winning my elections then you’re getting sued, and I’ll easily prove actual malice,” Masters wrote in a tweet tagging the Mirror and Rosenblatt. “Gawker found out the hard way and you will too.” (Gawker shuttered in 2016 after losing an invasion of privacy… Read Full Article