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The Rise and Fall of BuzzFeed News

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BuzzFeed: The Future of Journalism

BuzzFeed started as like Ben Smith describes in his new book as a skunk works for half post kind of like a Jonah Peretti. This is like a side project to figure out what is trending. But originally what was trending on Google and then laterWhat was trending on Facebook. And after they finally sort of got that figured out in 2011, they started hard Ben Smith at the end of the year,. end of 2011 started what was then BuzzFeed politics and became BuzzFeed news.

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