Hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer wrote to colleagues “to correct some of the misinformation that has been published about me” and “to explain [his[ thinking, the very essence of which is that all of us should think for ourselves.” Much like Simon & Schuster, Mercer had backed Milo Yiannopoulos and then realized that was a mistake: “I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open […]