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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>

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>

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>

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