Deadspin Sold with Entire Staff Laid Off in Wake of Falsely Accusing Child of Racism

It comes just months after it triggered an intense backlash by falsely accusing a young boy of wearing “blackface” to a football game.
Deadspin Sold with Entire Staff Laid Off in Wake of Falsely Accusing Child of Racism
The homepage of Deadspin website in 2019. Bill Pan/The Epoch times
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Online sports magazine Deadspin has been sold to a European company that will not keep any of its current employees—just months after it triggered an intense backlash by falsely accusing a young boy of wearing “blackface” to a Kansas City Chiefs game.

“Recently we were approached by the European firm Lineup Publishing expressing interest in purchasing Deadspin to add to their growing media holdings,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of Deadspin publisher G/O Media, said in a company-wide notice on Monday.

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