Gawker's Fox News Mole Identifies Himself, Promises More Excruciatingly Boring Posts [Updated]

And just like that, it was over. Gawker’s lackluster Fox News Mole has been fired by Fox, and revealed his identity. He is Joe Muto(pictured), a longtime producer for “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Muto revealed himself with a post explaining that he had been brought in by Dianne Brandi, Fox News’ Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs, and questioned about the whole thing. Muto was caught because he had used his work computer to access sources for two videos that were shown on Gawker.

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