BuzzFeed just laid off a whole lot of its staff and you’ll never guess what happened next

The Guardian on Sunday:

Future of digital journalism in question as BuzzFeed and HuffPost lay off 1000.

BuzzFeed on October 12, 2017:

Nine Breakup Stories That Are Actually Really Positive.

BuzzFeed News staff council on Medium.com on Saturday:

We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recently laid-off employees.

Meanwhile, back in happier times. That BuzzFeed piece in 2017:

Every cloud has a silver lining.

And Medium.com:

To Jonah Peretti, Lenke Taylor, and Ben Smith: We are the BuzzFeed News Staff Council, a group of employees appointed to open up the lines of communication between News employees and company management. We have urgent concerns about the sweeping lay-offs hitting the whole company — not just News. This letter is co-signed by current and laid-off staffers from across BuzzFeed who strongly share this concern.

Back to that 2017 BuzzFeed piece:

We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community how their breakup actually changed their life for the better. Here are some of the best responses.

Returning to Medium.com:

Every aspect of the way that these lay-offs have been handled so far — from communication to execution to aftermath — has been deeply upsetting and disturbing, and it will take a long time to repair the damage that has been done to our trust in this company … BuzzFeed is refusing to pay out earned, accrued, and vested paid time off for almost all US employees who have been laid off.

Just say no. SBS News on Twitter yesterday:

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has pleaded with young people to stop taking illicit drugs after a festival-filled long weekend saw 25 people transferred to hospital for drug-­related issues.

Liberal Democrat senator David ­Leyonhjelm responding:

That’ll work. Young people ignore everyone else, but I’m sure they won’t ignore @GladysB.

Top use of “almost certainly” in The Daily Beast yesterday:

President Trump, in his latest rant about “fake news”, directed his ire at a random California teenager on Twitter late Sunday. “Never thought I’d say this but I think @johnrobertsFox and @JillianTurner @FoxNews have even less understanding of the Wall negotiations than the folks at FAKE NEWS CNN & NBC!” Trump wrote. The “Jillian Turner” he tagged was not Gillian Turner, Fox News’ Washington correspondent, however. She appears to be a California high-school student featured for her soccer skills in numerous local media reports, and she almost certainly had nothing to do with media coverage of the President’s push for border wall funding.

Just asking questions. Twitter co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey on Twitter on Sunday:

Been playing with fasting for some time. I do a 22-hour fast daily (dinner only), and recently did a three-day water fast. Biggest thing I notice is how much time slows down. The day feels so much longer when not broken up by breakfast/lunch/dinner. Anyone else have this experience?

Political scientist, author and Time columnist Ian Bremmer replies:

Venezuelans.