BuzzFeed News is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning digital news outlet that BuzzFeed, Inc. shut down in 2023 after eleven years of operation. BuzzFeed News's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #44,214 (top 10%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
BuzzFeed News built a reputation for investigative journalism, most notably through its role in the FinCEN Files investigation, which it conducted as a media partner alongside the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 other news organizations across dozens of countries. The investigation drew on leaked government financial documents and involved more than 400 journalists in total. The outlet's handling of those documents drew legal scrutiny: a former U.S. Treasury Department official pleaded guilty in January 2020 to conspiring to unlawfully disclose documents to BuzzFeed News, though BuzzFeed News did not comment on its sourcing.
BuzzFeed News was previously owned and published by BuzzFeed, Inc., which went public in 2021 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. The newsroom was formerly affiliated with HuffPost and had Ben Smith and Mark Schoofs each serve as editor-in-chief at different points in its history. BuzzFeed News has published 212,456 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 700 accounts a total of 6,204 times.
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