BuzzFeed, Social-Media Platform

BuzzFeed is making a social media platform (no, really!)
BuzzFeed, the company that reveals which Harry Potter character you'd most likely marry based on your favorite flowers, is up to something big. The New
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 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 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
Jonah Peretti writes “manifesto” for Buzzfeed’s new social media platform
We need to be maniacal about packaging our content so it can compete in the social media feeds against SNARF.” —N
BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
BuzzFeed plans on launching a new social platform “built specifically to spread joy and enable playful creative expression.” In a blog post published on Tuesday, BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti highlights the “growing discontent” with platforms using AI-driven algorithms to keep users glued to their screens,
Social media is broken. Could BuzzFeed’s new “Island” platform finally make social media about the content, not the algorithms?
As social media platforms become increasingly political and algorithm-centric, many are looking for alternatives to the Meta, the Musk-owned X, or the banned-then-not-banned TikTok. But the next social media alternative could come from an unexpected source: BuzzFeed.
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WhatsApp to Allow Users to Add Social Media Links – Here’s What to Expect
Meta is working on a feature for WhatsApp that will allow users to add the links of their social media accounts to their ...
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Evolution of three huge social media platforms
Do we even remember how each got started? Also, are these platforms addictive? Finally, what’s next in the social media world? Let’s explore. Meta: Facebook started as Facemash in 2003.