Breitbart News
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Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart, or Breitbart.com) is an American far-right[5] syndicated news, opinion, and commentary[6][7] website founded in mid-2007 by American conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. Its content has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by academics and journalists.[8] The site has published a number of conspiracy theories[9][10] and intentionally misleading stories.[11][12] Posts originating from the Breitbart News Facebook page are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.[13][14][15][16]
Type of site | Politics News and opinion |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Breitbart News Network, LLC[1] |
Created by | Andrew Breitbart |
Editor | Alex Marlow (editor-in-chief)[2] Wynton Hall (managing editor)[3] Joel Pollak (senior-editor-at-large)[4] |
CEO | Larry Solov |
URL | breitbart |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional (required to comment) |
Launched | 2007; 17 years ago (2007) (as Breitbart.tv) |
Current status | Active |
Initially conceived as "the Huffington Post of the right",[4][17][18] Breitbart News later aligned with the alt-right, the European populist right, and the pan-European nationalist identitarian movement under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon,[19][20][21] who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016.[22] Breitbart News became a virtual rallying spot for supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.[23] The company's management, together with former staff member Milo Yiannopoulos, solicited ideas for stories from, and worked to advance and market ideas of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups and individuals.[24][25] After the election, more than 2,000 organizations removed Breitbart News from ad buys following Internet activism campaigns denouncing the site's controversial positions.[26][27][28] Breitbart News has promoted climate change denial[29] and COVID-19 misinformation.[30]
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)[31] and CEO, while Alex Marlow is the editor-in-chief, Wynton Hall is managing editor,[32] and Joel Pollak[4] and Peter Schweizer[33] are senior editors-at-large.