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Former wrestling champion Hulk Hogan is allowed to start seizing assets from Gawker CEO Nick Denton after a judge ruled that Denton had lied to the court about the value of his company.

In 2010, the New Yorker revealed that Gawker founder Nick Denton frequently described himself as a “pornographer” when people asked him what he did for a living.

To the dismay of pro-Gawker journalists, it seems that Facebook has no intention of showing Thiel the door.

“It troubles us that sex tapes have gotten a bad name from Gawker’s actions” said an Xhamster spokesman.

Earlier today, Gawker filed for bankruptcy. Now it appears that Ziff Davis will be acquiring the company in a court supervised auction.

Gawker Media is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is entertaining bids for sale, according to an individual who was briefed on the plan of action.

A column by Washington Post writer Stuart Karle compares billionaire Peter Thiel’s involvement in the Gawker trial to press intimidation in 1950s by white racists in the South.

Why Gawker messed with the wrong billionaire — and why we all benefited.

Billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is planning to help Gawker’s appeal of a $140 million jury award to former wrestler Hulk Hogan in a lawsuit secretly funded by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel.

Billionaire Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder and early investor in Facebook, called financing the $150 million crushing lawsuit against Gawker filed by former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan “one of my greater philanthropic things that I’ve done” in a revealing interview Wednesday.

A Florida judge body slammed Gawker’s bids for a new trial and reduction of the massive $150 million judgement made in favor of Hulk Hogan.

At The Hill, Mr. Zimmerman, the senior director for audience and strategy, said his goal is to emulate the attitude and approach of sites like Gawker and BuzzFeed without distorting what he calls The Hill’s distinct voice. He has filled a handful of new positions, including a director of emerging platforms, who is exploring ways to use Snapchat and Facebook Live to share its content.

It was reported this week that BuzzFeed has slashed its 2016 revenue forecast in half, after missing its 2015 target by more than $80 million.

Founder and owner of Gawker Media Nick Denton has been accused of hiding money and “playing down the value” of his company after being ordered to pay over $140 million in damages to former wrestling champion Hulk Hogan.

Regressive-left blogging network and news outlet Gawker is attempting to obtain a new trial after being ordered by the courts to pay a total of $140 million to former wrestler and reality television star Hulk Hogan in March.

Gawker Media is being sued yet again after the blogging network’s traumatic defeat to Hulk Hogan earlier this month, this time by a woman from Portland who claims the news outlet defamed and invaded her privacy through an article in 2007, and she wants $74,000 in reparations.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan is speaking out about the $145 million he recently won as a result of a lawsuit against Gawker, defending himself from Gawker CEO Nick Denton’s threats to appeal, and his desire to return to World Wrestling Entertainment.

TEL AVIV – Liberals slammed Hillary Clinton for being a “pandering Neocon” in her speech at AIPAC’s annual confab in Washington this week. Clinton reasserted her support for Israel at the conference and vowed to step up U.S.-Israeli ties if she becomes

Former wrestling champion and recently awarded recipient of over $145 million Hulk Hogan has spilled the beans on what it was like in court during his lengthy lawsuit against Gawker, the news outlet that posted a sex tape featuring Hogan without his permission in 2012.

Gawker has lost more than $150 million in value since January 2015, according to financial data released during wrestler Hulk Hogan’s successful lawsuit against the company.

Hulk Hogan is to be awarded an extra $25 million in punitive damages from Gawker in addition to the $115 million awarded last week.

Former professional wrester Hulk Hogan wept openly in a Pinellas County, Florida, courtroom Friday evening after being awarded $115 million in damages in his invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media over the outlet’s publication of his sex tape.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan on Friday and awarded him $115 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media.

Former Gawker Editor-in-Chief A.J. Daulerio was made to sweat in court on Monday after being interrogated about his previous remarks made during the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial last week where he claimed that he’d only refrain from posting a sex-tape if it featured a celebrity aged four or under.

Founder of Gawker Media Nick Denton claimed that a sex-tape featuring President Obama would not be newsworthy in the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker sex tape trial this week.

The Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial began on Monday in St. Petersburg, Florida. The trial follows Hogan’s decision to sue after the controversial regressive-left blogging network posted Hogan’s private sex tape in 2012 without permission.

A.J. Daulerio, former editor-in-chief of Gawker, claimed that he would only draw the line and withhold posting a sex tape if it featured someone that was four years-old or younger.

The Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial began today in St. Petersburg, Florida. The trial follows Hogan’s decision to sue after the controversial regressive-left blogging network posted Hogan’s private sex tape in 2012 without permission.

Left-wing blogging empire Gawker Media is being sued for publishing a sex tape of professional wrestler Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan. If Gawker loses, they face the prospect of a $100 million payout to Hogan, a penalty that could cripple the once-mighty media empire.

Gawker’s Alex Pareene says the site “set a trap” for Donald Trump based on his tendency to retweet compliments on Twitter, no matter who they’re from. A tweet quoting their Trump/Mussolini parody account yielded an interview question on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday.

Through the Freedom of Information Act, Gawker of all places, is rooting up documents that confirm what we already know: that the DC Media is nothing more than a branch of the Democrat Party. The serial-liars at the Washington Post have tried to dishonestly hide this bias under a pox-on-all-houses fig leaf of “transctaional journalism,” but the media corruption we’ve seen so far only benefits powerful Democrats.

Gawker Media’s hunger for investor cash unexpectedly led to an investment by a flamboyant strongman this week. No, not Hulk Hogan.

More evidence of Gawker’s general propensity to act in bad faith regarding innocent individuals, its subjects, and its own employees.

Awful news. Gawker’s tech and Silicon Valley gossip vertical, Valleywag, has finally been discontinued after 9 years.

Earlier this week, I reported on the rise of Facebook pages for ‘White Student Unions’ at U.S. campuses. As part of an ongoing backlash to radical racial activists on campus, white and non-white students have set up what they call

This week’s disturbing (but not surprising) revelation that a CNN foreign affairs reporter coordinated with Hillary Clinton’s State Department to launch an attack against Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has resulted in a swift rebuke from the Republican presidential candidate’s office.