I suppose I'm somewhat inclined to discount BuzzFeed's reporting. It's probably not fair of me, but my opinion of them has definitely been dragged down by the general "clickbait-y" property of the site as a whole.
"BuzzFeed itself — a financial play as much as Uber is — has key investors who are investors in Uber's main competitor, Lyft. Those investors are, too, investors in PandoDaily. Does this have any bearing at all on the cost of tea in China? I don't know. But I know that little in this world is what it seems."
That's directly from the end of the linked article in Applecore's post. I haven't been following this "scandal" particularly closely, but from what I have read, I haven't seen many people talking about this.
If the identity of the author of the OP article causes you to take said article with a grain of salt, does a financial connection between Lyft and BuzzFeed produce another, similarly sized grain of salt?
I suppose I'm somewhat inclined to discount BuzzFeed's reporting. It's probably not fair of me, but my opinion of them has definitely been dragged down by the general "clickbait-y" property of the site as a whole.