Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol...
by rchaud on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:08PM
(#19637446)
> This person most likely wouldn't have a job if the very practice they are reporting on didn't exist.
Buzzfeed has picked up $496 million in VC funding [1] since its inception. It's a catch-22 where they could absolutely have done this reporting without ad-based monetization, but the potential for- ad-based monetization is why the VCs parted with money in the first place.
Buzzfeed has picked up $496 million in VC funding [1] since its inception. It's a catch-22 where they could absolutely have done this reporting without ad-based monetization, but the potential for- ad-based monetization is why the VCs parted with money in the first place.
[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/buzzfeed#section-fun...