BuzzFeed joins the mainstream media club of censoring information to appease corporate advertisers
‘Now, however, it appears that advertisers are even beginning to influence the editorial judgment of some in the “new media” — such as BuzzFeed News. As reported by The New York Times recently, the website’s editors were forced to remove some posts because advertisers didn’t like what was written:
An internal review by BuzzFeed [in recent days] found three instances when editors deleted posts after an advertiser or employees from the company’s business side complained about their content, according to a memo sent to staff members on Saturday by the news and entertainment website’s editor in chief.
A memo from BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith reveals that the site’s editorial staff had deleted more than 1,100 posts in total; three due to advertiser complaints.’
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