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BuzzFeed Killing Content At Advertisers' Request
- Gawker, Monday, April 20, 2015 11:42 AM
Since Ben Smith was hired as editor-in-chief in 2012, Buzzfeed has removed content in response to advertiser complaints on at least three occasions, Gawker reports. “Smith’s admirable desire to preserve the Chinese wall between BuzzFeed’s editorial and advertising departments appears to have fallen short on more than one occasion,” it writes, citing an internal Buzzfeed memo.
