The Facebook Feed Has Become The Internet’s Suburban Sprawl
Expressways, neon lights, and concrete slabs might have a thing or two in common with our rising digital wasteland, littered with ads and pointless content.
How Online Marketers Use Facebook Quizzes To Exploit Your Narcissism For Easy Bucks
Brands know they need to make users feel as if they are gaining some insight into themselves, and that people want a personal and engaging conversation with their interactive content.
We Need To Stop Treating Our Politics Like Religious Dogma
We all want and need community. If our politics makes community impossible, then perhaps we’ve gotten things a bit messed up.
How The Right Can Bridge The Journalism Gap Now That Clinton’s Loss Changed The Culture Wars
Hillary Clinton’s loss changed the media and culture wars. Conservatives need to realize this, stop being defensive and clickbaity, and get back into real journalism.
How We Are All Responsible For BuzzFeed’s Fake News
Supposing the controversial dossier turns out to be just a tapestry of fabrication, who should be held responsible for keeping it alive? All of us.
Dear MTV: Telling White Guys What To Do Just Provokes Racism
The one-time music network doubles down on the identity politics parade of horribles that helped create the division and discontent of the current American body politic.
BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief: James Mattis Must Comment On Random Internet Memes
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith declared on Monday that James Mattis, Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, must respond to questions about random Internet memes on fake news sites.
Cell Phones Cause Cancer, And Other Scientists’ Lies
As with journalism, scientists have a perverse incentive to warp their findings to garner more clicks, shares, and buzz.
QUIZ: Is This Headline From Vox Or TMZ?
Vox has some great traffic so far. But is that traffic from super-important political explainers, or nonsense celebrity clickbait? Take our Vox vs. TMZ quiz to find out!
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