42 Facts About Breitbart News

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In 2016, Breitbart News became a virtual rallying spot for supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

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Breitbart News has promoted climate change denial and COVID-19 misinformation.

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3.

Breitbart News hired Joel Pollak as editor-in-chief and Alex Marlow as managing editor.

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4.

An October 2012 article in BuzzFeed News suggested there were internal tensions in the organisation in the year after Andrew Breitbart's death as staffers battled for ownership of his legacy.

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Under Bannon's management, Breitbart News aligned with the American alt-right, the European populist right, and the pan-European nationalist identitarian movement.

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6.

Breitbart News spokesperson Kurt Bardella stated in 2015 that the site "is a for-profit operation".

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7.

Breitbart News's investors include computer scientist and hedge fund CEO Robert Mercer.

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8.

Breitbart News strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.

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Breitbart News's condemned the site as "the Democratic Party's media enemy No 1" and "racist, radical and offensive".

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10.

Breitbart News announced they would be willing to go to "war" with Kellogg's over its decision to remove ads from the site.

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11.

Allies of Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner complained to Trump in April 2017 after Breitbart News published several unflattering articles about Kushner.

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12.

In January 2018, Breitbart News announced that Bannon had stepped down from his position as executive chairman.

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13.

In October 2019, Facebook announced that Breitbart News would be included as a "trusted source" in its Facebook News feature alongside sources like The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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Soon thereafter, Breitbart News trimmed prominently displayed, overtly racist content and fired contributor Katie McHugh for posting Islamophobic tweets about the 2017 London Bridge attack.

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Breitbart News is a far-right American news, opinion, and commentary website.

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16.

Breitbart News publishes articles that critique feminism, Islam, and immigration.

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Breitbart News has published a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories, as well as intentionally misleading stories, including a story that the Obama administration had supported ISIS during insurgency against the Syrian regime.

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Breitbart News has published material that has been called misogynist, xenophobic, and racist.

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19.

Breitbart News has had staff members associated with white supremacists.

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20.

An expose by BuzzFeed News published in October 2017 documented how Breitbart solicited story ideas and copy edits from white supremacists and neo-Nazis via the intermediation of Milo Yiannopoulos.

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21.

Yiannopoulos, together with other Breitbart News employees, developed and marketed the values and tactics of these groups and attempted to make them palatable to a broader audience.

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22.

An August 2019 internal Facebook study found that Breitbart News was the least trusted news source, and ranked as low-quality, in the sources it looked at across the U S and Great Britain.

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23.

Breitbart News has published several articles accusing the English Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal bias, including headlines such as "Five of the best examples of left-wing bias on Wikipedia in 2017".

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24.

In March 2018, Breitbart News responded negatively to a pop-up on Facebook containing content from the Wikipedia article on Breitbart News that described the news website as "intentionally misleading", resulting in several users attempting to change the article's content.

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25.

Breitbart News is on Wikipedia's spam blacklist, requiring special permission for links to the website to be used.

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26.

In 2008, Andrew Breitbart News launched the website Big Hollywood, a group blog by individuals working in Hollywood.

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27.

Breitbart News hired Mike Flynn, a former government affairs specialist at the Reason Foundation, as Editor-in-Chief of Big Government.

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28.

Breitbart News Daily began production on Sirius XM Patriot in 2015.

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Breitbart News played a central role in the 2009 ACORN video controversy, which resulted in the reorganization of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, as well as its loss of private and government funding.

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30.

In July 2010, Breitbart News released an edited video titled "Proof NAACP Awards Racism" which featured USDA official Shirley Sherrod speaking at a NAACP fundraising dinner in March 2010.

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31.

Andrew Breitbart News said that the point of the piece was not to target Sherrod, but said the NAACP audience's reception of some parts of the speech demonstrated the same racism the NAACP's President had accused the Tea Party movement of harboring.

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32.

Andrew Breitbart News stated that the photo was published without his permission.

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33.

In June 2016, Breitbart News falsely claimed President Obama supported terrorists.

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34.

In March 2017, Breitbart News published a story by conservative talk radio host Mark Levin claiming that Obama had wiretapped Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.

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35.

Ruhr Nachrichten, the original outlet and the alleged witness cited by Breitbart News, replied to the update, and stated that Breitbart News had not contacted them or the firefighters present to verify their story.

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36.

In November 2016, Breitbart News published an article summarizing a Daily Mail piece that falsely claimed that record-high global temperatures were unrelated to global warming.

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In June 2017, Breitbart News published an article by Dellingpole that claimed that 58 scientific papers disproved anthropogenic climate change.

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In 2020, Breitbart News falsely claimed that the sea level has remained stable throughout the 20th century.

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39.

In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described Breitbart News as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change.

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40.

Breitbart News apologized to Podolski after the picture drew attention.

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41.

In October 2017, Breitbart News published a false story claiming that an illegal immigrant was arrested in connection with the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.

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42.

Breitbart News did not immediately respond to CNBC when asked about the video being removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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