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Founded in 2008 by Tina Brown, now owned by People Inc. after IAC's rebranding. It combines political scoops with celebrity and media-industry coverage, in a fast, tabloid-inflected style.
It has broken real stories, particularly on media and political scandal, and does so quickly. Critics argue the speed shows, that its aggressive framing sometimes gets ahead of the evidence, and that its choice of scandals to pursue tracks its politics closely.