BuzzFeed Is Launching a New Social Media Network. Why?
So what should BuzzFeed do to regain its onetime foothold in internet culture? Start its own social network, of course. Such a prospect was teased earlier this month, after Semafor—the scoopy news site run by former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith—got hold of a leaked Slack message from BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti.
Social media is broken. Could BuzzFeed’s new “Island” platform finally make social media about the content, not the algorithms?
A s social media platforms become increasingly political and algorithm-centric, many are looking for alternatives to the Meta, the Musk-owned X, or the banned-then-not-banned TikT
BuzzFeed is making a social media platform (no, really!)
BuzzFeed is building a social media platform, and it’s out for blood “For years, major social platforms have abandoned their responsibility to content and culture, instead han
BuzzFeed plans to combat AI social media with... AI social media
Ironically, in a memo regarding his social media plans Peretti identifies AI as one of the problems at competitor companies like ByteDance (which owns TikTok) and Meta (which owns Facebook). “Having a job at Meta is beginning to feel like being a UBI recipient,
BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
BuzzFeed plans on launching a new social platform “built specifically to spread joy and enable playful creative expression.” In a blog post published on Tuesday, BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti highlights the “growing discontent” with platforms using AI-driven algorithms to keep users glued to their screens,
BuzzFeed’s New Plan: An AI-Powered Social Media Platform to Help “Spread Joy”
In an open letter, CEO Jonah Peretti calls out TikTok and Meta for prioritizing AI tech over content and says people miss the mid-2010s "'beer and wine' era of the internet."
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