• blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
    22·
    4 days ago

    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
      1·
      4 days ago

      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
        1·
        9 hours ago

        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.

  • Akh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    Peretti told SxSW about AI:

    Using AI is the way of connecting people, building community around these pillars of culture, and taste, and community.

    It seems like his speech was written by aI