![]() What do we do now? Especially with misinformation on the rise, I think it's a really scary time that we're heading into in terms of how do we consume this media that's put in our face 24/7. If you think of Gen Alpha and younger generations who didn't have to think about, "What is this source? Can I trust this? How do I determine a verified source versus one that isn't?" Because they had these safeguards in place. Now that these are slowly being taken away, I worry that that trusting relationship is still there, especially with a certain generation. We have built such a relationship with the Internet that we have come to trust it implicitly, but we had these checks and balances in place to help us with that and help build that trusting relationship. No, but really, in both of these aspects, I think about the future of trust and the Internet. We have no idea.Įlamin: It is, in fact, Halle Berry speaking.Ī. Harmony: Well, first of all, with losing my blue check, I don't even know who I am anymore. But also, concerned for myself as someone who was recently the victim of a phishing scam at the ripe age of 33, that I will now get very confused on Twitter.Įlamin: Harmony, what does this make you think of, this idea that this moment in the Internet has kind of passed?Ī. In terms of the checkmarks, it's kind of funny watching everyone scramble like naked mole rats. ![]() I think that given the industry, it was a great platform for younger journalists and more diverse journalists who might have been gatekept out of other platforms. Sarah-Tai: I guess it's easy to make jabs over BuzzFeed News because of the kind of conflations you were talking about earlier with the listicles, but especially watching publications like The New York Times launching full-scale attacks on trans folks, it was one of the few platforms that had the resources to do long-form journalism that was actually informative and knowledgeable and seemed to actually care about the issues it was covering. Where do we have the space where we can see the fallout of this situation? I don't know.Įlamin: Sarah-Tai, what does that make you think of? But we've devalued these systems to such a degree that of course we can see them as expendable. The best thing that ever happened to my career is that moment.- are seeing this idea of newsrooms being stripped away because people are thinking, "Oh, it's all about community journalists now." But that's not it. I started out with BuzzFeed Canada but pulled me over to the news side. I left BuzzFeed News in January after 7.5 years at BuzzFeed, 6.5 of which was at BuzzFeed News. But Elamin, you wrote a little thread yesterday on Twitter about your time at BuzzFeed and the community of people that you worked with, and I think that sort of speaks to I think we maybe are losing the communal aspect of all of these things. Niko: I mean, I was just sandwiched between Beyoncé and the Pope, so I'm still sort of reeling from that a little bit. ![]() It really feels like a significant moment because I think the end of Twitter verification and also the end of BuzzFeed News - to me, that represented an idealized version of the Internet. I'm a little bit biased and maybe defensive about this because I worked in that newsroom for, like, seven-and-a-half years, but that announcement happened literally on the same day that Twitter announced that it will unverify anyone who doesn't pay for a blue checkmark. It had a bunch of bureaus in a bunch of countries, including Canada. I think it's important to distinguish for people: BuzzFeed is the site that has the fun quizzes and listicles BuzzFeed News is a fully-operational newsroom. I think it's kind of important to talk about. The end of BuzzFeed NewsĮlamin: I want to start with the story about BuzzFeed News, because BuzzFeed News just announced that it's shutting down the website. ![]() For the full discussion, including a review of Ari Aster's divisive new film Beau Is Afraid, listen and follow the Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud podcast on your favourite podcast player. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. Harmony joined host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to consider the fallout of the Internet's favorite newsroom, and dive into Frank Ocean's controversial Coachella performance last weekend - including his subsequent departure from the festival's lineup. To make sense of it all, culture critics Sarah-Tai Black, Niko Stratis and A. It's been a big week in the world of pop culture: BuzzFeed News is no more, Beau Is Afraid is dividing audiences everywhere, and Frank Ocean returned to the stage for the first time since 2017. 25:00 Buzzfeed News shuts down, and Frank Ocean bows out of Coachella
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