The White House commented on the latest scandal-fodder on Monday by distancing themselves as much as possible from the news that the Justice Department secretly snagged two months of phone records from a bunch of Associated Press journalists.
There is no question that BuzzFeed and its founder Jonah Peretti are good at marketing. Pondering the future of making money selling ads, New York magazine asks this week: "Does BuzzFeed Know the Secret?" The answer, as Andrew Rice explains, is yes. But, then, so do you.
The president of the United States chose not to reveal how he planned to decide on a highly controversial issue to a group of political opponents. This is only news because of what you may have read earlier.
Here's a not-so-happy fact: "The 30 Happiest Facts of All Time," the biggest hit of the week on BuzzFeed, which has been caught before lifting its highly shareable feel-good listicles from Reddit, was mostly plagiarized from a month-old Reddit thread "Reddit, what is the happiest fact you know?"
Over the past few days, BuzzFeed has turned the story of a Palestinian filmmaker detained by LAX customs officials on his way to the Oscars into something infinitely more petty: an all-out campaign to distract readers from their own shoddy reporting.
In statements made exclusively to The Atlantic Wire, Michael Moore and Emad Burnat say the Palestinian filmmaker's detainment by LAX customs officials on his way to the Oscars was anything but a "publicity stunt," as a deeply flawed BuzzFeed report based on a single anonymous source characterized the incident.
Someone's not telling the truth about the detainment of director Emad Burnat, and for now, Buzzfeed is on the losing end of this one — burned by an anonymous source at Los Angeles International Airport.
Has Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and the Superman myth his frequently-updated Twitter feed generates, finally jumped the shark?
Conservative blogger and general muckraker Matt Drudge has been trumpeting an Obama video to air on Fox News tonight that would change the face of the election. Turns out, it's a five year old video of a speech that's been online the whole time.
Data from the Buzzfeed network has found many fewer page views are coming from email than they used to, as other modes of sharing, like Facebook and Twitter have taken off. We have a theory for why: emailing links around takes too much effort.
For more than a deacde, we've been busily populating the World Wide Web with everything new under the sun, but the time has come to start retrieving the old, too.
Tuesday's edition of Buzzfeed's semi-regular Tech Confessional column is a whopper: It's a chat with a guy whose job at Google was to look at all the child porn, beheadings, bestiality, and necrophilia that comes across the company's products. Does that make your job seem a little better?
Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution?
When companies are asked to define themselves as either media or tech companies, it seems it's usually because they don't have a definitive answer.
Thursday I wrote an innocent post, proffering an opinion, the simple opinion of one blogger. I came down against the corgi.
Ah, Buzzfeed, from the moment news of Dick Clark's death began to spread on Twitter, we knew, oh how we knew, that you were preparing the inevitable "Some Number of People Don't Know Who Dick Clark Is" post.
Listen up for an important career lesson: If you're clever enough to co-create a meme that gets so popular, the Secretary of State lolz along with it, you're probably clever enough to work for one of the Internet's leading meme chronicler and generators.
BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief tells us how his media diet has changed since joining the world of #LOL and #WTF.
This morning when Buzzfeed announced it had found the "mysterious" video that the late Andrew Breitbart's site Big Government had been teasing for weeks, it seemed they'd taken the wind out of Big Government's sails, not that there was much wind to be taken.
In a campaign speech Monday, Rick Santorum took advantage of a newly rediscovered op-ed from Mitt Romney to finally give him a harder time on his Massachusetts health care law. But Santorum probably would have benefited from making the case earlier.
BuzzFeed's newest vertical, a tech news section called FWD, looks great with its nice grey logo and BuzzFeed-y layout. But we're not sure the coverage so far goes beyond gimmick.
In yet another step toward becoming the next Huffington Post big important Internet news thing, BuzzFeed snatched up Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan.
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti doesn't mind if people are a little bit confused about the site's mix of LOL-friendly content and, more recently, political scooplets.
Looks like BuzzFeed has made another power move after hiring Ben Smith away from Politico last month: It's picked up RollingStone.com senior editor Doree Shahrir to oversee its cultural coverage.
After hiring a serious journalist in Ben Smith as its editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed is getting a serious amount of money to back up his effort in churning out serious journalism from the site that got famous from aggregating LOLcats.
Buzzfeed co-founder Jonah Peretti played it pretty coy when we tracked him down to ask about how he lured veteran blogger Ben Smith startled to lead a new team of scoop-hungry journalists at fun-machine BuzzFeed.
BuzzFeed, which has spent its life building an encyclopedia of other people's greatest Web hits, has hired away one of the key reporters from the website Politico, to be its new editor-in-chief and build their own original news division. Smith, who was one of the first hires at Politico five years ago, said there are plans to hire a dozen more reporters.
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