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The Latest: Gawker founder testifies via video in Hogan case

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Gawker Media\'s Nick Denton, left, and A.J. Daulerio, right, listens to testimony during Hulk Hogan\'s lawsuit trial against Gawker Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, and his attorneys are suing Gawker for 00 million, saying his privacy was violated, and he suffered emotional distress after Gawker posted a sex tape of Hogan and his then-best friend\'s wife. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, Pool) MANDATORY NEW YORK POST OUT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Latest on the trial of wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the New York-based website Gawker (all times local):

4:25 p.m.:

During an afternoon session in the Hulk Hogan sex video lawsuit, jurors heard Gawker Media founder Nick Denton testify that the website decided to post a Hogan sex video because “it showed Hogan as a person.”

Denton was in the courtroom Wednesday, but attorneys for Hogan played his video testimony recorded in a 2013 deposition.

He said that “it’s up to others to determine the boundaries of accepted social, journalistic and legal norms.”

Hogan and his attorneys sent Denton a cease and desist order but Denton didn’t take the video post down because he said he thought it was newsworthy.

Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker Media for $100 million for posting an edited video showing him having sex with his then-best friend’s wife.

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11 a.m.:

Jurors saw video testimony from a reporter for the news website Gawker, as a trial continued for a third day in the Hulk Hogan sex video lawsuit.

Gawker reporter A.J. Daulerio said that when he received the Hogan sex video in the mail it was “very amusing” and that he thought it was newsworthy.

He added that he did not try to contact Hogan, the woman Hogan had sex with or the woman’s husband, prior to posting an edited version of the 30-minute video.

The former pro wrestler, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker Media for $100 million for posting the video. Hogan said he didn’t know he was being filmed when he had intimate relations with his then-best friend’s wife.

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4 a.m.

Testimony will continue Wednesday for a third day in the Hulk Hogan sex video trial, with Hogan’s attorneys expected to call more witnesses.

The former pro wrestler, whose given name is Terry Bollea, is suing Gawker Media for $100 million for posting an edited version of a sex video. Hogan said he didn’t know he was being filmed when he had intimate relations with his then-best friend’s wife. The friend, Florida-based radio DJ Bubba The Love Sponge Clem, gave his blessing to the coupling and even handed Hogan a condom.

Gawker says the publication was a legitimate scoop because Hogan had talked openly about his sex life before, in forums such as Howard Stern’s radio show.

The six-person jury may have to grapple with questions about how celebrity affects expectations of privacy.

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