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HQ Trivia Users Deleting App After Gay Billionaire Peter Thiel Named Investor

The #DeleteHQ campaign is in full force.

First question: Why are HQ users calling for a boycott?

It was announced earlier this week that the popular app, on which 1 million people play trivia every day, will raise $15 million from billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Cyan Banister, a Founders Fund partner, will sit on HQ's board.

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 31: Entrepreneur Peter Thiel gives remarks at the National Press Club on October 31, 2016 in Washington, DC. Thiel discussed his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Much to the dismay of HQ fans, Thiel is a vocal and financial supporter of Donald Trump, which has sparked the Twitter hashtag #DeleteHQ, Mashable reports.

Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, donated $1.25 million to Trump’s political campaign and spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2016.

“No matter what happens in this election, what Trump represents isn’t crazy and it’s not going away,” Thiel said during a press conference.

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U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd L) welcomes members of his American Technology Council, including (L-R) Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. According to the White House, the council's goal is "to explore how to transform and modernize government information technology."

Last summer Thiel joined the White House American Technology Council "to explore how to transform and modernize government information technology."

Thiel also famously spent $10 million to finance several lawsuits against Gawker, ultimately shuttering the news site that had outed him as gay in 2007. It was reported last month that the Silicon Valley tech whiz now wants to buy the defunct site, presumably so that he could remove articles about him that remain live.

"It is ridiculous to claim that journalism requires indiscriminate access to private people's sex lives," he wrote in a New York Times op-ed. "All people deserve respect, and nobody’s sexuality should be made a public fixation."

❌ Peter Thiel is now involved

❌ Alleged bad behavior by co-founder towards women

❌ It's not fun anymore anyway

Time to #DeleteHQ https://t.co/JNhwlCom8u

— Tim Baker ⛄️ (@IAmTimBaker) February 2, 2018

Will HQ find an answer to end this bad publicity before time runs out?

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