Too Much Focus On AI Has Taken The ‘Social’ Out Of Social Media

Last week, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti called out social media platforms TikTok and Facebook parent Meta in an open letter to their respective CEOs, Zhang Yiming and Mark Zuckerberg, writing that they no longer “care very much about content” and instead have become “much more interested in technology and AI.”

Peretti further suggested that the social networks prioritized content that could create anger and result in…