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Arianna Huffington launched The Huffington Post on the 9th of May 2005. She created the site as a direct counter to the Drudge Report and built an early strategy around search-engine optimized stories.
BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost in November 2020 through a stock deal. Weeks after that acquisition, BuzzFeed laid off 47 HuffPost staff members mostly journalists in the U.S. and closed down HuffPost Canada while letting go of 23 staff working for Canadian and Quebec divisions.
Lydia Polgreen succeeded Arianna Huffington as editor-in-chief in December 2016 following her resignation. Polgreen announced in April 2017 that the company would rebrand its official name from The Huffington Post to HuffPost.
Jonathan Tasini filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit on behalf of thousands of bloggers in April 2011. A court dismissed the suit with prejudice on the 30th of March 2012 ruling that bloggers had volunteered their services for publication compensation.
The first international edition appeared on the 26th of May 2011 when HuffPost Canada launched. Le Huffington Post debuted as a French-language edition on the 23rd of January 2012 in partnership with Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes.