Gawker Draws Facebook's Ire

Gawker.com and managing editor Nick Denton are well-known for poking fun at media types, but managers of Facebook say he went too far yesterday, Portfolio.com writes. Gawker posted an item lampooning the daughter of American Law Media founder Steven Brill, poking fun at the 25-year-old’s weight alongside screenshots and other content lifted from her Facebook profile.

Other than her famous father, Portfolio writes, Emily Brill had no media connection that would make her fodder for the ever-more-combative Gawker. Facebook’s terms of use forbid reposting of the site’s content anywhere else on the Internet, and the social-networking site sent Denton a letter warning that his account would be deactivated if he did it again. (More Gawker stories.)