Gawker Media’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy announcement on Friday has split members of the press, with one side arguing it’s a serious blow to the First Amendment, and the other saying it’s a case of a court doing its job in a costly lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan.

“Gawker’s bankruptcy could be a sign of what’s to come if Donald Trump is president,” the Washington Post’s Callum Borchers warned.

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