
Why Buzzfeed News got shut down
People vs Algorithms
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The Misalignment of Complex and Huffpo
I admired much of what BuzzFeed News did and when they did something like news They brought in good people and they made good product When you were like, Hearst, I mean, I guess we ran profitable businesses And so I think a lot of times in this era Yeah. It was an era where everyone was trying to hack distribution, hack this, hack that it was the era where Upworthy came out of nowhere and then got some like Forbes cover Which is like the kiss of death for anyone or anything. But little things little things as a brand no, not gonna work As a media company? Thumbs up or thumbs down on that as a media company?! Alex quit the podcast? Did
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