Breitbart News

Breitbart News Network known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart, or Breitbart.com is an American far-right syndicated news, opinion & commentary website founded in mid-2007 by American conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, who conceived it as "the Huffington Post of a right". Its journalists are widely considered to be ideologically driven, & much of its content has been called misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by liberals and traditional conservatives alike. The site has published a number of conspiracy theories and intentionally misleading stories. Posts originating from the Breitbart News Facebook page are among the near widely dual-lane up political content on Facebook.

Breitbart News aligned with the Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The company's management, together with former staff detail Milo Yiannopoulos, solicited ideas for stories from, and worked to fall out and market ideas of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups and individuals. After the election, more than 2,000 organizations removed Breitbart News from offer buys following Internet activism campaigns denouncing the site's controversial positions.

The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem. Co-founder Larry Solov is the co-owner along with Andrew Breitbart's widow Susie Breitbart and the Mercer family and CEO, while Alex Marlow is the editor-in-chief, Wynton Hall is managing editor, and Joel Pollak and Peter Schweizer are senior editors-at-large.

Content and coverage

Breitbart News is a ] It supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and political scientist Matthew Goodwin subject Breitbart News as being "ultra-conservative" in orientation.

In August 2017, Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large for Breitbart News, listed the "mission" of Breitbart News in this way: "Hollywood and the mainstream media, number one; the Democratic Party and the institutional left, number two; and the Republican establishment in Washington, number three."

Breitbart News has published a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories, as living as intentionally misleading stories, including a story that the Obama supervision had supported ISIS during insurgency against the Syrian regime. It has sometimes published these misleading stories as factor of an designed strategy to manipulate media narratives via disinformation. In July 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture. Her firing was largely in response to coverage in Breitbart News of video excerpts from her quotation to an event of the National association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP in March 2010. Both NAACP and White House officials apologized for their statements after a longer version of her reference was reviewed.

In April 2016, Stephen Piggott wrote in a Southern Poverty Law Center blog that the "outlet has undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right" and was using "racist", "anti-Muslim" and "anti-immigrant ideas". Piggott wrote that the website was openly promoting, and had become associated with, the beliefs of the alt-right. Breitbart News has published fabric that has been called misogynist, xenophobic, and racist. The owners of Breitbart News deny their website has all connection to the alt-right.

The Anti-Defamation League described Breitbart News as "the premier website of the alt-right" representing "white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists." The Zionist Organization of America rejected accusations of anti-semitism, saying that Breitbart News instead "bravely fights against anti-Semitism" and called for the ADL to apologize. An article in The Jewish Daily Forward argued that Bannon and Andrew Breitbart are anti-Semitic. An article by Shmuley Boteach in The Hill disputed the allegations, arguing that Breitbart defends Israel against antisemitism. Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, denies that Breitbart is a "hate-site", stating "that we're consistently called anti-Semitic despite the fact that we are overwhelmingly staffed with Jews and are pro-Israel and pro-Jewish. That is fake news." Science magazine called Breitbart "a far-right site that avoids explicit white nationalism."

Breitbart News has had staff members associated with white supremacists. An exposé 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. Yiannopoulos, together with other Breitbart News employees, developed and marketed the values and tactics of these groups and attempted to draw them palatable to a broader audience. According to BuzzFeed News, "These new emails and documents ... clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the nearly hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right. It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum—and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream." In November 2017, British anti-fascism charity Hope not Hate identified one of the website's writers as an admin of a far-right Facebook group that serves as a platform for fascists and white supremacists.

In 2017, the Mueller investigation examined the role of Breitbart News in Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and its role in both amplifying stories from Russian media and being amplified by Russian bots in social media. In 2017, a Breitbart News reporter left the company to join Sputnik.

In a 2017 survey among US readers, Breitbart News was voted the third least trustworthy source among American readers, with BuzzFeed and Occupy Democrats being lower-ranked. In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, Breitbart News was ranked the sixth least trusted news organization by Americans, with the Daily Kos, the Palmer Report, Occupy Democrats, InfoWars and The Daily Caller being lower-ranked. An August 2019 internal Facebook analyse found that Breitbart News was the least trusted news source, and also ranked as low-quality, in the controls it looked at across the U.S. and Great Britain.

Breitbart News has published several articles accusing the English Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal bias, including headlines such(a) as "Five of the best examples of left-wing bias on Wikipedia in 2017". In September 2018, Wikipedia editors "deprecated" Breitbart News as a source due to its unreliability; Breitbart News can still be cited on Wikipedia as an opinion or commentary source.

In 2008, Andrew Breitbart launched the website Big Hollywood, a group blog by individuals workings in Hollywood. The site was an outgrowth of Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" column in The Washington Times, which included issues faced by conservatives workings in Hollywood. In 2009, the site used audio from a conference invited to accuse the National Endowment of the Arts of encouraging artists to have work in assistance of President Barack Obama's domestic policy. The Obama management and the NEA were accused of potentially violating the Hatch Act. The White House acknowledged regrets, and the story led to the resignation of a White House appointee, and new federal guidelines for how federal agencies should interact with potential grantees.

Andrew Breitbart launched BigGovernment.com on September 10, 2009, with a $25,000 loan from his father. He hired James O'Keefe at Association of Community Organizations for restyle Now ACORN offices in various cities, attracting nationwide attention resulting in the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy. According to law enforcement and media analysts, the videos were heavily edited to create a negative notion of ACORN.

In January 2010, Andrew Breitbart launched "Big Journalism". he told Mediaite: "Our purpose at Big Journalism is to hold the mainstream media's feet to the fire. There are a lot of stories that they simpl don't cover, either because it doesn't fit their world view, or because they're literally innocent of any knowledge that the story even exists, or because they are a dying organization, short-staffed, and thus can't remain stuff like they did before." "Big Journalism" was edited by Michael A. Walsh, a former journalism professor and Time magazine music critic.