Buzzfeed is one of the more popular online “news” services. Despite reported revenue of $300 million in 2018. it has had to lay off 220 people. It is feared that the layoffs will harm the news gathering and investigative personnel investments made by the company. This has often been the trend in online “news” services causing them to resort to more opinion than news.
We already have too much opinion and too often this opinion is accepted as news. The free/ad-supported model of the Internet moving in this direction will leave us all less informed and probably more misinformed. This is what you get for free.