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🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Buzzfeed recently laid off many of its staff members, and they've been involved in numerous |
| 0:04.9 | scandals since that day. Many of the employees were outraged that Buzzfeed was refusing to |
| 0:10.4 | pay out what's called paid time off, but ever negotiations they've agreed to do so. |
| 0:15.0 | However, we're now learning that someone secretly recorded the CEO Jonah Prattie in a meeting |
| 0:20.8 | revealing that he's concerned about people leaking their meetings, so it's kind of weird. |
| 0:26.4 | But interestingly, the people who are coming down the hardest on Buzzfeed are not conservatives. |
| 0:31.6 | It's the far left and their own staffers today. Let's take a look at the leaks and the numerous |
| 0:37.2 | scandals affecting Buzzfeed since they've decided to lay off much of their staff. |
| 0:41.6 | But before we get started, make sure you follow me on mines at mines.com slash Tim Kest. |
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| 0:57.7 | The latest news, Jonah Prattie cautions against leaks, |
| 1:01.7 | in leaked audio of Buzzfeed all hands-on meeting. Now, in my opinion, this story is actually kind of |
| 1:07.5 | silly, but what it shows us, that's really interesting, is that within Buzzfeed, staff members are |
| 1:13.6 | kind of pissed off. This story from Splinter News, which is a far left website, with Buzzfeed's |
| 1:19.0 | latest round of mass laughs over. CEO Jonah Prattie hosted an all hands meeting on Wednesday |
| 1:23.6 | to face questions about his handling of the past week, as well as what the future would bring for |
| 1:28.0 | the company, that only a few short years ago was valued at $1.7 billion. Starting this past Friday, |
| 1:34.4 | Buzzfeed staffers across multiple teams and offices around the world were notified that their |
| 1:38.1 | positions with the company had been eliminated. The layoffs at the company stretched across the weekend |
| 1:43.1 | and into this week. When the dust finally settled, the company had cut 15% of its workforce, |
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