How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation

Re:How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation by Quequau on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:40PM (#14463143)

Yeah, BuzzFeed has a frustrating business model. Produce great volumes of worthless clickbait, wrapped with adverts and use the revenue to fund actual legit journalism.

Clearly it works to some degree but I expect they're going to struggle to ever move beyond their clickbait reputation.

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Re:How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation by eridius on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:47PM (#14463221)

Well, I mean, this is why they have the BuzzFeed brand and the separate BuzzFeed News brand, right? They even show up as two different channels (and different colors) in the Apple News app. A lot of people still don't seem to realize that there is a split like this, but changing people's perception of them is really just a matter of time.

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Re:How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation by notfromhere on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:32PM (#14464323)

It's like complaining that the New York Times has actual news articles next to the crosswords and ads

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