Was the Gawker Story a Hoax?
A small but vocal minority suggests Gawker was tricked into running a now-unpublished gossip item.
Does it matter, at this point, whether the deleted Gawker item was true?
Much of the [external] outrage surrounding the July 16 item is tied to the idea of it being nobody’s business, Gawker or otherwise, what a C-level media executive chooses to do in their private, spare time. But lurking in the background, via Got News and a few other sites, is another potential problem for Nick Denton: the idea that the story might have no truth to it.
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