Though the site is known to push ethical boundaries in obtaining its traffic-friendly scoops, it's a line that even it does not typically cross.

Fans of Liam Payne, the 31-year-old former member of One Direction who unexpectedly died at a hotel in Argentina last week, honored the singer with vigils throughout Europe and Argentina over the weekend. Police said there were between 800 and 1,000 people in London's Hyde Park for a tribute to Payne on Sunday, the BBC reported.

Celebrity news publication TMZ has hit back at critics who scolded the publication for sharing photographs of Liam Payne's lifeless body - and it is not the first time they have been under fire