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'''BuzzFeed, Inc.''' is an American [[internet]] [[mass media|media]] and news company. The firm is a news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/about|title=About BuzzFeed|author=|date=|work=BuzzFeed|accessdate=}}</ref> BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 as a viral lab focusing on tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and [[chairman]] of ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', started as a co-founder and investor in BuzzFeed and became the executive chairman.  

'''BuzzFeed, Inc.''' was an American [[internet]] [[mass media|media]] and [[fake news]] company. The firm was a news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/about|title=About BuzzFeed|author=|date=|work=BuzzFeed|accessdate=}}</ref> BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 as a viral lab focusing on tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and [[chairman]] of ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', started as a co-founder and investor in BuzzFeed and became the executive chairman.  

BuzzFeed's news division began in December 2011 when Peretti hired Ben Smith away from ''[[Politico]]'' as editor-in-chief to expand the site into long-form journalism and reporting.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stelter|first=Brian|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/buzzfeed-adds-politico-writer/|title=BuzzFeed Adds Politico Writer|publisher=Mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com|date=December 12, 2011|accessdate=}}</ref> Smith came to fame in 2008 when he broke the story of [[Barack Obama]]'s [[communist]] connections beginning in the home of [[leftist]] celebrity [[terrorist]]s [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]] who hosted a fundraiser for the upcoming [[radical]].<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html Obama once visited '60s radicals.], Ben Smith, Politico, February 22, 2008.</ref>

BuzzFeed's news division began in December 2011 when Peretti hired Ben Smith away from ''[[Politico]]'' as editor-in-chief to expand the site into long-form journalism and reporting.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stelter|first=Brian|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/buzzfeed-adds-politico-writer/|title=BuzzFeed Adds Politico Writer|publisher=Mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com|date=December 12, 2011|accessdate=}}</ref> Smith came to fame in 2008 when he broke the story of [[Barack Obama]]'s [[communist]] connections beginning in the home of [[leftist]] celebrity [[terrorist]]s [[Bill Ayers]] and [[Bernardine Dohrn]] who hosted a fundraiser for the upcoming [[radical]].<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html Obama once visited '60s radicals.], Ben Smith, Politico, February 22, 2008.</ref>

==Clapper and Tapper==

 

===Clapper and Tapper===

On Tuesday January 10, 2017, [[CNN]] stated President-elect Trump was briefed on the ''[[Clinton-Steele dossier]]''.  An hour later Buzzfeed published the dossier and CNN linked to it.<ref><small>4. One of the seventeen reports in the Dossier—CIR 112—accused the Plaintiffs of criminal conduct and participation in an alleged [[Trump-Russia]] scheme to influence the [[2016 presidential election]]. Defendants knew that this Report was not verified, and that it defamed Plaintiffs on its face. Defendants could easily have removed that Report from the Dossier before they started peddling the Dossier to media and journalists in September and October 2016. They chose not to do so. Nor did they attempt to determine the veracity of that Report with the Plaintiffs themselves.

On Tuesday January 10, 2017, [[CNN]] stated President-elect Trump was briefed on the ''[[Clinton-Steele dossier]]''.  An hour later Buzzfeed published the dossier and CNN linked to it.<ref><small>4. One of the seventeen reports in the Dossier—CIR 112—accused the Plaintiffs of criminal conduct and participation in an alleged [[Trump-Russia]] scheme to influence the [[2016 presidential election]]. Defendants knew that this Report was not verified, and that it defamed Plaintiffs on its face. Defendants could easily have removed that Report from the Dossier before they started peddling the Dossier to media and journalists in September and October 2016. They chose not to do so. Nor did they attempt to determine the veracity of that Report with the Plaintiffs themselves.

5. At all times during the Defendants’ engagement of Orbis and [[Christopher Steele|Steele]], it was either intended or clearly foreseeable that the Dossier’s contents would be republished (in whole or in part) to third parties, either by the Defendants themselves or their clients. Indeed, that is the entire purpose of “oppo research” in politics. Those third parties included government officials, as well as news media and journalists who could make its content public.

5. At all times during the Defendants’ engagement of Orbis and [[Christopher Steele|Steele]], it was either intended or clearly foreseeable that the Dossier’s contents would be republished (in whole or in part) to third parties, either by the Defendants themselves or their clients. Indeed, that is the entire purpose of “oppo research” in politics. Those third parties included government officials, as well as news media and journalists who could make its content public.

Five weeks after BuzzFeed published the false allegations, Aleksej Gubarev sued denying that his web-hosting companies had used “botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and ‘conduct altering operations’ against the [[Democratic party]] leadership.” BuzzFeed argued that under [[New York]] state's fair-report privilege, the fact [[President Obama]] had been briefed on the phony dossier, and approved briefing the President-elect with "salacious and unverified" information, the intelligence agencies must answer questions about Obama's approval.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-graham-uncover-unusual-email-sent-susan-rice-herself-president-trump-s</ref> The court has agreed.<ref>https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/buzzfeed-trump-dossier-lawsuit.php</ref> [[James Comey]] will be [[subpoena]]ed to testify about the January 5, 2017 [[Oval Office]] meeting.<ref>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180805/07231540373/court-says-comey-other-doj-officials-must-answer-buzzfeeds-questions-about-steele-dossier.shtml</ref>

Five weeks after BuzzFeed published the false allegations, Aleksej Gubarev sued denying that his web-hosting companies had used “botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and ‘conduct altering operations’ against the [[Democratic party]] leadership.” BuzzFeed argued that under [[New York]] state's fair-report privilege, the fact [[President Obama]] had been briefed on the phony dossier, and approved briefing the President-elect with "salacious and unverified" information, the intelligence agencies must answer questions about Obama's approval.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-graham-uncover-unusual-email-sent-susan-rice-herself-president-trump-s</ref> The court has agreed.<ref>https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/buzzfeed-trump-dossier-lawsuit.php</ref> [[James Comey]] will be [[subpoena]]ed to testify about the January 5, 2017 [[Oval Office]] meeting.<ref>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180805/07231540373/court-says-comey-other-doj-officials-must-answer-buzzfeeds-questions-about-steele-dossier.shtml</ref>

==Ali Watkins==

===Ali Watkins===

 

In 2017, the bogus [[Carter Page]] [[FISA abuse|FISA application]]. with the Steele allegations (Steele was a paid opposition researcher, a fact not widely known in March 2017) was [[leak]]ed to the media by the Senate Intelligence Committee giving [[mainstream media]] impetus to the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.

BuzzFeed senior reporter Ryan Broderick reportedly has a disturbing internet footprint rife with [[pedophilia]] and [[rape]] jokes.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buzzfeed-journo-reportedly-blogged-about-pedo-fantasies-rape-jokes-and-doxing</ref>

BuzzFeed reporter Ali Watkins received the full classified Carter Page FISA application from the Senate Intelligence Committee director of security, James Wolfe in March 2017.<ref>https://nypost.com/2018/06/09/new-york-times-reporter-broke-the-biggest-rule-in-journalism/amp/</ref> [[James Wolfe indictment|Wolfe was arrested and indicted]] in mid 2018 and Watkins, who parlayed sleeping with her source into a job with the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>https://amgreatness.com/2018/06/13/moms-to-daughters-dont-be-ali-watkins/ </ref> was reassigned away from reporting on [[national security]] matters.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/former-trump-adviser-page-previously-targeted-by-russian-spies-913292867813</ref>

On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed announced that it was ceasing operations, citing steady loss of income to the tune of $10 million per year after it had been sued for publishing the Trump-Russia hoax documents.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/far-left-buzzfeed-news-shuts-down-developing/ Far-Left BuzzFeed News Shuts Down… DEVELOPING] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

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