Forbes’ content landfill has its moment

https://boingboing.net/2022/02/10/forbes-content-landfill-has-its-moment.html

“Harvard University’s Nieman Lab offers a “an incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism“. Forbes, an illustrious business magazine on a par with Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek, transformed its website into a growth-obsessed blog platform more than a decade ago, with a plan to outpace The Huffington Post through sheer unedited, unchecked, mostly-unread volume. Putting such a well-respected brand on user-generated content and posing it in the same format and style as its professional journalism was a grand experiment that reached its crescendo this week, when a suspected billion-dollar cryptoscammer, cringe-inducing rapper and Forbes contributor all turned out to be the same person.”