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It's sort of ironic citing BuzzFeed here, as they were long a primary supplier of bullshit news and questionable listicles, before they pivoted into actual jour

• nyolfen 10y ago
  to be fair, i think there's a pretty big difference between 'bullshit' (ie inconsequential) and fabricated news. i remember when i still used facebook, being intensely annoyed every time i saw news that seemed to have vaguely plausible but clearly fake content -- the sites in question were 'satire', a la the onion, though much less clever. in retrospect, now, it seems predestined that at some point they would drop the pretense altogether, though.