12/17/2023 0 Comments Alex chen gawker gamergate![]() ![]() Hogan’s sex tape had been ruled a matter of public interest by a federal judge and a Florida appeals court, but it was still a sex tape, and the adjudication of the moral case became inseparable from the legal one. ![]() (That post was taken down after widespread criticism.) ![]() Hovering over the proceedings was the fact that, the previous summer, Gawker had written about the attempted extramarital dalliance of a Condé Nast executive, a far less public citizen than Hogan. Thiel’s team has sued Gawker over a variety of editorial matters, but the chief allies in Thiel’s victory were the wrestler Hulk Hogan, who won a hundred-and-forty-million-dollar judgment in March against Gawker Media for invasion of privacy and emotional distress, and a Florida judge and jury, who awarded Hogan damages roughly fifty to seventy times larger than the typical tort award for wrongful death. This campaign, which started with the tech billionaire Peter Thiel, led Gawker to court, then to bankruptcy, and finally to the sale. “The campaign being mounted against its editorial ethos and former writers has made it too risky,” Gawker's founder, Nick Denton, wrote in a memo to the company. Attempts to find a separate buyer have been unsuccessful. The most immediate and least meaningful cause is that Univision, after buying Gawker Media for a hundred and thirty-five million dollars at auction, and absorbing Gawker Media’s lease, union contract, and six other sites, has declined to continue operating. Starting next week, the flagship site of Gawker Media-where I worked for the last two years, editing the women’s site Jezebel- will no longer exist. But no “long live Gawker” follows the declaration this time around, and that is a first. Gawker is dead, and not for the first time. ![]()
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