BuzzFeed is making a social media platform

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 Buzzfeed is developing its own social media platform,
BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
BuzzFeed, which also owns HuffPost and Tasty, plans to tackle the addictive social media environment by making “content that gives you a little buzz, helps you relax, have a good time, and connect with your friends,” while also launching this new social media platform of its own.
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 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 Is Launching a New Social Media Network. Why?
So what should BuzzFeed do to regain its onetime foothold in internet culture? Start its own social network, of course. Such a prospect was teased earlier this month, after Semafor—the scoopy news site run by former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith—got hold of a leaked Slack message from BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti.
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’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 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
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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.
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BuzzFeed CEO Says AI ‘Destroyed the Internet,’ Plans New Social App for ‘Human Creativity Fighting Against the Machine’
BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti on Tuesday said companies like Meta and TikTok, as well as AI, have "destroyed the ...