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#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith

The Fifth Column

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The End of Social Media

BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed News shut down a week ago. The company was built to compete with social media sites such as Facebook, but never made it past the user generated content layer. Jonah Peretti: "We spent way too much money and didn't bring in enough" He says he doesn't know what's going on at Vise; there is no news about that yet.

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