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Editors find the quality of BuzzFeed articles to be highly inconsistent. Respondents to a 2014 survey from the Pew Research Center on news sources in America ranked BuzzFeed at the bottom of the list.[1] BuzzFeed may use A/B testing for new articles, which may cause article content to change.[2] BuzzFeed operated a separate news division, BuzzFeed News, which had higher editorial standards and was hosted on a different website. See also: BuzzFeed News.

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References

  1. ↑ Mitchell, Amy; Gottfried, Jeffrey; Kiley, Jocelyn; Matsa, Katerina Eva (October 21, 2014). "Media Sources: Distinct Favorites Emerge on the Left and Right". Pew Research Center. Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Wang, Shan (September 15, 2017). "BuzzFeed's strategy for getting content to do well on all platforms? Adaptation and a lot of A/B testing". Nieman Lab. Archived from the original on November 21, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.

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 Editors find the quality of BuzzFeed articles to be highly inconsistent. Respondents to a 2014 survey from the Pew Research Center on news sources in America ranked BuzzFeed at the bottom of the list.[1] BuzzFeed may use A/B testing for new articles, which may cause article content to change.[2] BuzzFeed operated a separate news division, BuzzFeed News, which had higher editorial standards and was hosted on a different website. See also: BuzzFeed News. 1 Links Spamcheck
  1. ↑ Mitchell, Amy; Gottfried, Jeffrey; Kiley, Jocelyn; Matsa, Katerina Eva (October 21, 2014). "Media Sources: Distinct Favorites Emerge on the Left and Right". Pew Research Center. Archived from the original on October 20, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Wang, Shan (September 15, 2017). "BuzzFeed's strategy for getting content to do well on all platforms? Adaptation and a lot of A/B testing". Nieman Lab. Archived from the original on November 21, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.