For people under guardianship, the system can be dehumanizing, dangerous, and even deadly. For the professionals — who can control hundreds of people at a time — it can be very profitable. A BuzzFeed News investigation. | Continue reading
An influential study from Argentina has been used to argue that ivermectin prevents COVID 100% of the time — but its inconsistencies have led experts to question if it could have actually happened as advertised. | Continue reading
The aircraft watched protests in Washington, DC, in June last year and also flew over Baltimore in 2015 after Freddie Gray’s death. | Continue reading
“It’s when you veer off to the back roads that don't connect to the highway, that's when you find yourself in trouble." | Continue reading
The approval will likely spur vaccination mandates at schools, hospitals, and businesses across the country. | Continue reading
Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest. | Continue reading
Employees are departing the personal styling company, while those who remain fear their jobs are gradually being replaced by an algorithm. “We know the ultimate goal of Stitch Fix was to get rid of us | Continue reading
“You can always take an existing article and rewrite it just enough to avoid copyright infringement." | Continue reading
Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar both took the gold for the men's high jump in a truly heartwarming decision. | Continue reading
For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from? | Continue reading
For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from? | Continue reading
Here is the most complete picture yet of the staggering scale of China’s prisons and detention camps for Muslims in Xinjiang. | Continue reading
The Michigan kidnapping case is a major test for the Biden administration’s commitment to fighting domestic terrorism — and a crucible for the fierce ideological divisions pulling the country apart. | Continue reading
Paul Hodgkins pleaded guilty to a felony and wasn’t accused of violence. | Continue reading
Defense attorneys said they will argue that the FBI “induced or persuaded” the defendants to go along with the violent scheme. | Continue reading
By Thursday, outages had left 500,000 without power and led to at least 10 deaths. | Continue reading
Instead, the 3,044 empty seats represented the students who did not graduate this year because they were killed by gun violence. | Continue reading
BuzzFeed News won for its innovative series exposing China’s mass detention of Muslims and was named a finalist for its colossal FinCEN Files investigation into the global banking industry. | Continue reading
“The truth is we humans sort of lucked out,” one expert said. | Continue reading
From the FinCEN Files investigation: Secret documents show how one of the world’s biggest banks kept doing business with companies that its own employees raised red flags about. | Continue reading
Venmo confirmed it is adding a feature that would let people set their friend list to private or visible only to their friends. | Continue reading
The famous astronomer resigned from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015 after a sexual harassment investigation made public by BuzzFeed News. | Continue reading
As Facebook contends with internal allegations of censorship, unequal enforcement, and pro-Israel bias, employees are worried it is once again bungling a politically charged issue with potential for v | Continue reading
“All these emotions kind of bottle up, so it’s good to — it feels good to yell it out.” | Continue reading
Airbnb told BuzzFeed News the listing for the cabin in Montana violated its COVID misinformation policies. | Continue reading
An elite crime squad searched Twitter’s New Delhi offices after the company labeled tweets from members of the ruling party “manipulated media.” | Continue reading
We’re so used to putting our entire lives online, but what if we just…didn’t? | Continue reading
Old photos on Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, are easily exposed on its website. There’s no way to delete them or make a profile private. | Continue reading
Viral (and complicated!) custom drinks are the future of Starbucks, where iced drinks now outsell hot coffee. | Continue reading
The peer-to-peer payments app leaves everyone from ordinary people to the most powerful person in the world exposed. | Continue reading
The peer-to-peer payments app leaves everyone from ordinary people to the most powerful person in the world exposed. | Continue reading
The peer-to-peer payments app leaves everyone from ordinary people to the most powerful person in the world exposed. | Continue reading
The young activist who read the Russian Constitution aloud to armed soldiers told the court, "You will not suppress the truth.” | Continue reading
The former Cisco exec will fill a role that’s been vacant for nearly two years. | Continue reading
Joseph Kelly has an easy fix to the climate crisis — and he’ll take down anyone who tries to stop him from selling it to you. | Continue reading
“Starbucks is in the process of evaluating their organic presence on FB, and whether they should continue to have a presence on the platform at all.” | Continue reading
After BuzzFeed News reported on an internal document that examined the social network’s failings leading up to the Capitol riot, many of Facebook's employees were prevented from accessing it. | Continue reading
After BuzzFeed News reported on an internal document that examined the social network’s failings leading up to the Capitol riot, many of Facebook's employees were prevented from accessing it. | Continue reading
After BuzzFeed News reported on an internal document that examined the social network’s failings leading up to the Capitol riot, many of Facebook's employees were prevented from accessing it. | Continue reading
More than 50 tweets are now blocked in India. | Continue reading
An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against the Stop the Steal movement ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and hoped the company could “do better next time.” | Continue reading
An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against the Stop the Steal movement ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and hoped the company could “do better next time.” | Continue reading
Colorful desktop iMacs, M1 chip iPads, and a much better Apple TV remote. | Continue reading
The Chinese government’s use of prisons and detention camps in Xinjiang is part of what the US and other countries have called a genocide. | Continue reading
Search through BuzzFeed News’ database to find out if the police department in your community is among the hundreds of taxpayer-funded entities that used Clearview AI’s facial recognition. | Continue reading
A millennial stay-at-home mom from South Carolina, a gay couple from Texas, and a social worker in New York believed in QAnon. Now that Biden is president, they’re not sure where to go from here. | Continue reading
A new report identified more than 200 militia pages and groups on Facebook as of March 18, more than two months after the insurrection at the Capitol. | Continue reading