Okay, but here’s what the piece actually says:

The PayPal co-founder has become one of the most controversial figures in Silicon Valley, thanks to his unusual and often alarming political views, as well as a recently revealed crusade to bankrupt Gawker Media through frivolous litigation, waged secretly over the course of a decade.

Again, didn’t say anything about the moral status of Gawker. I hear you saying that his efforts to destroy Gawker were good — that’s your opinion, man — but it seems pretty obvious that they were controversial.