BuzzFeed is making a social media platform

BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
He outlines how companies like Meta and TikTok prioritize the judgment of AI algorithms rather than the thoughts of their employees, leading to the proliferation of content that “elicits the most compulsive and predictable response from the human brain.
4 Open Questions About BF Island, BuzzFeed's New Social Platform
BuzzFeed founder and chief executive Jonah Peretti announced his plan to launch BF Island, a new social media platform and consumer app. Peretti shared a manifesto explaining his rationale for launching the new product,
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
Shortly after enacting extensive layoffs at HuffPost, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has a bold new solution for fixing social media: artificial intelligence. Sorry, by “bold new solution” we actually meant “same solution every other CEO is proposing for every other problem currently facing humanity.” Our mistake!
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 Designing AI-Driven Social-Media Platform as Part of Continuing Business Overhaul
The digital-media company said its designing a social platform that will contrast with algorithm-centric ones.
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."
BuzzFeed is taking on Instagram, TikTok, X with a new social platform designed to spread ‘joy’
BuzzFeed, the media site known for its celebrity news and quizzes, announced on Tuesday that it’s developing its own social media platform, in a move to counter the current negativity on the internet.
BuzzFeed announces new social platform, says aims to disrupt social media
BuzzFeed (BZFD) announced a new social platform that it says is “designed to bring joy and creativity back to the internet.” “For years, major
Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform
Yes, according to a weird, long blog post that Peretti published to his site Tuesday, the media executive isn’t feeling so ...
BuzzFeed Has a New Plan to Save Media, and We’re Screaming
So what should BuzzFeed do to regain its onetime foothold in internet culture? Start its own social network, of course. Such ...