BuzzFeed denies deleting critical articles to appease advertisers
This article is about Buzzfeed lying about deleting articles to please advertisers.
- The articles were removed because of editorial concerns, the site’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith told staff in an email on Friday. He said both had since been reinstated because their deletion had been against BuzzFeed’s policy.
- Both of the deletions, Smith wrote, “involved the same thing: my overreaction to questions we’ve been wrestling with about the place of personal opinion pieces on our site”.
- An update to that article included a denial from BuzzFeed that advertising concerns had anything to do with the decision to delete.
Even though Buzzfeed face criticism for their actions they are allowed to delete or post as they please.
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