Ryan Holiday on Conspiracy, Gawker, and the Hulk Hogan Trial
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The Rise and Fall of Gawker
Gawker publishes not just rumors about people's say sexual activity, but videos online. The company is set up so that writers are paid first with how many posts they do. They're also paid partially based on how much traffic those posts do. So they have a real incentive to go after these kind of salacious things.
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