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Columbia Journalism Review Article Frames BuzzFeed’s Deleted Posts As A Censorship Problem

This archived screenshot preserves a Columbia Journalism Review article titled “BuzzFeed’s censorship problem”, about BuzzFeed deleting posts that had criticised advertisers or commercially sensitive partners, including posts connected to Dove/Unilever and Monopoly/Hasbro. The screenshot is significant because it records mainstream media-industry concern that BuzzFeed’s native advertising model created pressure on editorial independence, even where the company claimed to maintain a separation between editorial and commercial work. The item matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because BuzzFeed later presented itself as a judge of other publishers’ editorial standards while its own archive and correction practices had already raised questions about deletion, advertiser sensitivity and the blurring of journalism with brand-funded content. Read alongside the Slate Dove deletion item and the wider native-advertising material, this screenshot helps document the commercial context in which BuzzFeed’s serious-news operation was built: a platform funded by brands, dependent on traffic, and vulnerable to criticism that editorial judgement could be shaped by commercial relationships.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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