Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire, revealed this week that he funded Hulk Hogan's winning $140 million lawsuit against Gawker Media. Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, sued the publication for invasion of privacy after Gawker's editors published a 2012 blog post featuring an excerpt of a video that showed the wrestler having sex.

Jason Tanz, editor-at-large for WIRED, spoke with PBS NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan.