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Remix Everything: BuzzFeed and the Plagiarism Problem

Adrian Chen · 06/28/12 03:05PM

BuzzFeed has built a lucrative business on organizing the internet's confusing spectacle into listicles easily comprehended by even the most numbed office workers. But the site's approach to all content as building blocks for viral lists puts it in an awkward position in relation to internet etiquette and journalistic ethics.