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BuzzFeed News mentions (4)

• BuzzFeed, after gutting its newsroom, asks reporters to produce even more — Meanwhile, the company's stock is struggling, revenue is in free fall, and editorial ambitions remain hazy

  The terrible part is they completely poisoned the name "buzzfeed" because buzzfeednews.com (not buzzfeed.com) does some amazing journalism. Among other stories they are the ones who received the leaked "FinCen Files" which showed that FinCen (the US govt agency in charge of monitoring suspicious financial transactions) was basically not doing anything and money laundering was freely happening under their watch and... Source: about 1 year ago

• Cannabis Users Can Have More Severe Pain After Surgery | Cannabis users may need additional medications such as opioids to help manage pain after surgery, according to new guidelines.

  Someone shared a post from buzzfeednews.com on r/science. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ah yes California the well known bastion of conservative ideas clearly only went dem bc of cheating!!!11

  But, given that we're trying to separate their garbage content from their news section, I'll take a look at the buzzfeednews.com site. Currently, the top story is, "How Lin-Manuel Miranda Went From Cool to Corny." Again, the Pulitzer story is off in the sidebar, albeit this time around, w/ larger font a picture of the journalists who actually won the award. Under the "Latest News" heading, these are apparently... Source: almost 3 years ago

• An 18-Year-Old Said She Was Raped While In Police Custody. The Officers Say She Consented.

  This is buzzfeednews.com....i mean, its hard to take anything they say as actually happening. Source: almost 3 years ago

Digg mentions (74)

• The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so

  They are referring to digg who set up most AMA. Source: 10 months ago

• Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators

  Or is it a success because Reddit Inc has shown its hand of not giving a shit about your average user and this site will bleed users as they, especially power users who actually post and moderate and build the communities in the first place flee to places where their countless hours of unpaid labor are appreciated (like lemmy, kbin, mastodon), and good old reddit becomes a ghost town like digg which is apparently... Source: 11 months ago

• What did the Reddit blackouts actually accomplish?

  It's the great unraveling. Communities are torn asunder. It's could very well be the first step of Reddits fall. Or reddit will just look and feel very different afterwards. A husk of an aggregator. Go to digg.com right now to see what reddit might be. Source: 11 months ago

• What's Your Take on Reddit's Plan to Sell Your Posts and Comments as "Data Licensing" to Other Companies to Train AI Language Models?

  Reddit owes much of its success to the digg.com exodus, it would be fitting for its demise to be caused by a similar exodus. Source: 11 months ago

• Donald Trump’s Indictment Helps Boost MSNBC To Primetime Weekly Ratings Win Over Fox News

  I went over to see what digg.com was up to these days. Their comment section is comprised of reddit comments. Brutal. Source: 11 months ago