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The end of the social web is just really something.

Here’s former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief (and now Semafor co-founder) Ben Smith on the shutdown of BuzzFeed News.

“Peretti had built BuzzFeed into a traffic juggernaut by being among the first to see the rising social web. But BuzzFeed never found a new path when that trend turned against us — when consumers found their Facebook feeds toxic, not delightful; when platforms decided news was poison; and when Facebook, Twitter, and the rest simply stopped distributing links to websites.”

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