Bill Maher Blasts BuzzFeed, HuffPost as 'Peak Woke' to $120 Million Investor Byron Allen
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 13
Bill Maher Blasts BuzzFeed, HuffPost as 'Peak Woke' to $120 Million Investor Byron Allen
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 13
Summary
On Monday's "Club Random," Bill Maher told Byron Allen that BuzzFeed and HuffPost were "peak woke" and staffed by "snarky" millennial "nepo babies."
Maher said HuffPost had targeted him for years, especially after Arianna Huffington left, and cast the outlets as enforcing left-wing "purity" over facts, history and perspective.
Allen, who became BuzzFeed CEO in May after a reported $120 million investment and also owns HuffPost, said he had been in the job only two to three weeks but does read the publications.
The exchange lands after HuffPost drew backlash earlier this year for an Olympics piece about discomfort cheering for Team USA amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.