> In his post announcing the layoffs, Williams said the business model Medium had been pursuing, advertisement-driven media, was to blame for "misinformation,"

> In his post announcing the layoffs, Williams said the business model Medium had been pursuing, advertisement-driven media, was to blame for "misinformation," and that Medium would no longer sell ads or help the publishers it hosted on its site with ad revenue, and therefore it no longer needed the people it had hired to work in those areas. > "The state of tech blogs is atrocious. It's utter crap," he told Bloomberg's Brad Stone in 2013. "They create a culture that is superficial and fetishizing and rewarding the wrong things and reinforcing values that are self-destructive and unsustainable." And he said he was "pessimistic about the state of media, and that's why I want to work on this problem." The irony.