BuzzFeed is a website famous for its happy clickbait, listicles and quizzes. It even used to have a top-quality news section, BuzzFeed News! And it’s about to go broke. What happened? AI happened. …
  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 个月前

    It even used to have a top-quality news section, BuzzFeed News!

    Azeen Ghorayshi made her name reporting at Buzzfeed News about sexual harassment in science… and then she became one of the New York Times’s professional transphobes.

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 个月前

      I know people were impressed by some of the journalism they did but I could never take them seriously when it was mixed in with all their brain-rotting listicles

      • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
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        1 个月前

        It felt very much like the devil’s bargain of online media. Like, you can have your prestige journalism as a treat, but only if the slop flows fast enough that we need clout more than eyeballs.