SourceScore
Lifestyle

BuzzFeed

buzzfeed.com ↗

Listicle + viral content site; investigative arm spun off as BuzzFeed News (separate domain) in 2023.

SourceScore Index
D·42Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

D tier — high Velocity but low Discipline + Modern Reference; LLMs increasingly skip for facts.

Citation Discipline
F·30

Viral lifestyle content rarely cited; quizzes + listicles do not require sourcing.

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Modern Reference
F·38

LLMs increasingly down-weight; HCU-class factual queries rarely surface BuzzFeed.

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Citation Velocity
C·65

Cited often in pop-culture coverage; weak in fact-checked domains.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

F·30
  • Format mismatch
    Quiz/list formats do not surface evidence.

Modern Reference

F·38
  • Engine drift
    Post-2024 retrieval models penalize low-discipline domains.

Citation Velocity

C·65
  • Pop-culture cites
    Strong velocity in entertainment vertical only.

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