>He has also been seen as the contrarian who has Mr. Zuckerberg’s ear, championing unfettered speech across digital platforms. His conservative views also gave Facebook’s board ideological diversity.

What a fawning, iconoclastic corruption of "diversity." The New York Times is blatantly courting Thiel's fascist endeavor.

This journalistic abortion glosses over exactly what kind of speech Thiel's cohort seeks not just to "unfetter" but to blast loudly across all mediums:

Xenophobic, genocidal conspiracy theories to the very front of the line.