BuzzFeed is making a social media platform

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.
Facebook vs. Other Social Media Platforms: Where Are Users Heading?
Facebook has been a dominant force in the social media landscape for over two decades, connecting billions of users worldwide. However, the rise of newer platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) has raised questions about Facebook’s long-term relevance.
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."
Social media is broken. Could BuzzFeed’s new “Island” platform finally make social media about the content, not the algorithms?
At the end of a long manifesto about what’s broken about today’s biggest social media platforms, BuzzFeed Founder and CEO Jonah Peretti revealed that the company is working on a new social media platform that uses human curation rather than algorithms “that brings joy and playfulness back to the internet.”
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 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
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