Breitbart’s Facebook page has earned over 1 billion interactions since 2012, benefiting from preferential treatment and an algorithm that amplifies angry and divisive content In 2017, Facebook started ...
Every so often, a right-wing commentator who purports to abhor dishonesty among media elites admits that they’ve been guilty of dishonestly purveying propaganda. These figures are not marginal. In the ...
A once-fringe online news site has deep connections with Donald Trump and the UK Independence Party. So what's the story behind Breitbart? Just days after the US election, an ebullient Nigel Farage ...
Breitbart, the alt-right news site whose executive chairman Steve Bannon was pushed out in January after feuding with President Donald Trump, has lost about half its readership according to comScore, ...
A major advertising company has banned Breitbart News from using its ad-serving tools after judging the conservative news site had violated its hate speech rules. AppNexus analysed Breitbart's website ...
When Steve Bannon got fired from his job as President Trump's chief strategist in August, he told the Weekly Standard he felt free. "I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. I built a fucking machine at ...
Even so, the article quickly spread across right-wing media outlets, including InfoWars and the Drudge Report, which shared Breitbart’s unsubstantiated claims — as detailed by BuzzFeed News. The ...
A sense of responsibility weighs heavily these days on Breitbart News. Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, emerging from a newsy interview with the Treasury secretary last Thursday, mused about ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Breitbart London has supported the Ukip leadership hopeful Anne Marie Waters Steve Bannon is still a force to ...