Gawker’s forte was breaking news, and it rarely let obstacles prevent them from doing so. This mindset was responsible for Gawker’s decisions in the years that would follow to take on Steve Jobs over a stolen iPhone prototype, to publish a controversial recruiting video produced by the Church of Scientology, to (correctly) accuse the mayor of Toronto of being a crack addict. It was why Gawker was one of the first to reignite rumors of Bill Cosby’s alleged sexual assaults, and published anonymous claims about actor Kevin Spacey and young boys, as well as the misdeeds of the director James
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