Why this private investment office is thinking about backing the next big social media platform

Tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel has hinted that his private investment office Thiel Capital next big investment could be to co-fund a new content platform for free-thinking intellectuals.  Thiel and Thiel Capital’s head, Eric Weinstein, recently dropped significant hints that they are researching ways to create a new distribution platform for content aimed at protecting authors from so-called “digital assassination”.