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by cylinder 3477 days ago
Is there a business model behind it or just prestige? These types of articles definitely lose money for BuzzFeed.
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I believe Peretti has made repeated claims dating back to the founding of the company that this was the plan. Either he's committed or doesn't want to be legitimately called a liar :-)

All joking aside: so far they've done good work and I assume it is earnest.