The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.
Why is this getting so much traction on Lemmy?
'G/O Media has a long history of destroying or otherwise undermining the work of beloved media outlets that have done incredibly important work. Spanfeller blames, as is seemingly required in every CEO layoff notice, “economic headwinds” and “macroeconomic news.” Spanfeller and Great Hill Partners have, surely, mismanaged Jezebel in ways both big and small, and Spanfeller and G/O haven’t given anyone a reason to take their words at face value, but the subtext here is that Jezebel’s content was hard to sufficiently monetize.
Jezebel was crap, and had been for a long time. Throw in bad management and VC’s and what do you end up with?
I generally like 404, they’re mostly ex- Vice/ Motherboard, but this is garbage. The headline contradicts what the article actually says, then they try to justify it.
