I wonder what's the connection, if any, between the author of the article and Gawker.
I'm going to warn you: if you apply this pattern of thinking in all sorts of spheres of life you're going to lose a lot of friends.
I would rather lose friends than have untrustworthy influences in my life.
Same here. But what I'm implying is that we've been fooled into believing untrustworthy people as trustworthy, and identifying some of those people as untrustworthy will get you in hot water.