Gawker straight up lies about what companies advertise with them to get companies to give them advertising money.

38  2014-10-21 by Discord_Dancing

If you're behind, let me catch you up.

Basically the gamergate people whined at the car company Mercedes enough to get them to temporarily stop advertising with Gawker after one of their writers tweeted about wanting to bring back bullying.

Gawker then removed their page that listed what companies advertised with them. Everyone thought it was to make it more difficult to contact their advertisers, but it turns out that list of 'advertisers" is completely full of shit.

Adobe, a company on their list of advertisers page, tweeted earlier today "We are not an advertiser w/ Gawker. We asked Gawker to remove our logo. Adobe stands against bullying."

So everyone is left wondering, if Adobe doesn't even advertise with Gawker, what is their company logo doing on a page listing companies that advertise with Gawker?

Woops.

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