Heavy (website)

Heavy is a news aggregation platform based in New York City. It operates through its flagship website, Heavy.com, and Spanish-language platform, AhoraMismo.com. The website specializes in "5 Fast Facts" posts, which aggregate facts about trending topics and people.
History.
Heavy.com was founded by Simon Assaad and David Carson in 1999 as a video-focused entertainment site aimed primarily at young men, debuting audiovisual pop culture phenomena like the Kung Faux series. Assaad and Carson said they modeled the highly interactive site on video games. The website was rebooted in 2012 as a news site that reached more than 9 million readers a month as of January 2017.
Assaad continues to serve as CEO, and Aaron Nobel is the editor in chief.
Content.
Heavy.com aggregates news on trending topics.
"The Wall Street Journal"s editorial board cited "Heavy.com" in an August 2019 story on the mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, as having "gained access to Connor Betts' Twitter account before it was taken down". "Slate" cited the website's story on the Quebec City mosque shooting as one of the first to be published in English.