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Business Insider / Lara O'Reilly / Mar 19, 2015

Upworthy cofounder Peter Koechley apologizes for the clickbait headlines his site brought forth into the world. —JB

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Benton, Joshua. "“We sort of unleashed a monster. Sorry for that. Sorry we kind of broke the Internet last year.”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 19 Mar. 2015. Web. 15 Nov. 2024.

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Benton, J. (2015, Mar. 19). “We sort of unleashed a monster. Sorry for that. Sorry we kind of broke the Internet last year.”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 15, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/we-sort-of-unleashed-a-monster-sorry-for-that-sorry-we-kind-of-broke-the-internet-last-year/

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