At Least Some Good Comes Out of BuzzFeed's Spat With Trump
A BuzzFeed official said Thursday that the news outlet is donating $25,000 to a journalism nonprofit using the earnings from the sales of its "failing pile of garbage" merchandise.
"Cool thing: Thanks to people who bought the failing pile of garbage merch, we get to donate more than $25k to @pressfreedom," the head of U.S. news at the publication tweeted.
The profits are going to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom.
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday railed against BuzzFeed, calling the site a "failing pile of garbage" after it published a privately produced intelligence dossier that contained unverified claims about Trump's connections to Russia. At a news conference Wednesday, Trump also said the site would "suffer the consequences" for publishing the documents.
