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OwnerBreitbart News Network, LLC[1]
Created byAndrew Breitbart
EditorAlex Marlow(editor-in-chief)[2]
Wynton Hall(managing editor)[3]
Joel Pollak(senior-editor-at-large)[4]
CEOLarry Solov
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Launched2007;17 years ago(2007)(asBreitbart.tv)
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Breitbart News Network(/ˈbraɪtbɑːrt/;known commonly asBreitbart News,Breitbart,orBreitbart) is anAmerican far-right[5]syndicated news, opinion, and commentary[6][7]website founded in mid-2007 byAmerican conservativecommentatorAndrew Breitbart.Its content has been described asmisogynistic,xenophobic,andracistby academics and journalists.[8]The site has published a number ofconspiracy theories[9][10]andintentionally misleading stories.[11][12]Posts originating from theBreitbart NewsFacebookpage are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.[13][14][15][16]

Initially conceived as "theHuffington Postof the right ",[4][17][18]Breitbart Newslater aligned with thealt-right,the Europeanpopulist right,and thepan-European nationalistidentitarian movementunder the management of former executive chairmanSteve Bannon,[19][20][21]who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016.[22]Breitbart Newsbecame a virtual rallying spot for supporters ofDonald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.[23]The company's management, together with former staff memberMilo Yiannopoulos,solicited ideas for stories from, and worked to advance and market ideas ofneo-Naziand white supremacist groups and individuals.[24][25]After the election, more than 2,000 organizations removedBreitbart Newsfrom ad buys followingInternet activismcampaigns denouncing the site's controversial positions.[26][27][28]Breitbart Newshas promotedclimate change denial[29]andCOVID-19 misinformation.[30]

The company is headquartered inLos Angeles,with bureaus inTexas,London,andJerusalem.Co-founderLarry Solovis the co-owner (along with Andrew Breitbart's widow Susie Breitbart and theMercer family)[31]and CEO, whileAlex Marlowis theeditor-in-chief,Wynton Hallismanaging editor,[32]andJoel Pollak[4]andPeter Schweizer[33]are senioreditors-at-large.

History

2005–2012: creation and early years

Andrew Breitbartin 2012

Andrew Breitbart launchedBreitbartas a news aggregator in 2005. The website featured direct links to wire stories at theAssociated Press,Reuters,Fox News,theNew York Post,TMZas well as a number of other outlets. The website's initial growth was largely fueled by links from theDrudge Report.In 2007,Breitbartlaunched a video blog,Breitbart.tv.[34][35]

According to co-founderLarry Solov,the two men were in agreement that the site should be "unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel" during their visit to Israel in 2007.[36]In August 2010, Andrew Breitbart told the Associated Press that he was "committed to the destruction of the old media guard." As part of that commitment, he foundedBreitbart,a website designed to become "theHuffington Postof the right "according toBreitbart News's former executive chairman,Steve Bannon.[4]Breitbart Newsexclusively re-posted theAnthony Weiner sexting scandal,theresignation of Shirley Sherrod,and theACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.Following Andrew Breitbart's death in 2012, the site was redesigned, bringing the formerly distinct "Big" websites under one umbrella website atBreitbart.[4]

Billionaire conservative activistRobert MercerendowedBreitbartwith at least $11 million in 2011.[37]

2012–2016: after Andrew Breitbart's death

Bannon assumes leadership

Joel Pollak,the senior editor-at-large ofBreitbart Newssince 2012

Andrew Breitbart died in March 2012. The website hosted a number of memorials for him. Editors said they intended to carry on his legacy at the website.[38]Following Andrew Breitbart's death, former board member Steve Bannon became executive chairman andLaurence Solovbecame CEO. The company also hiredJoel Pollakas editor-in-chief andAlex Marlowas managing editor.[39]An October 2012 article inBuzzFeed Newssuggested there were internal tensions in the organisation in the year after Andrew Breitbart's death as staffers battled for ownership of his legacy.[40]

Before his death, Andrew Breitbart had begun a redesign of theBreitbart Newswebsite to transform it from a links-aggregator into a more tabloid-style website. The redesign was launched shortly after his death in March 2012.[40]

In February 2014, Bannon announced the addition of approximately 12 staff members and the opening of Texas and London-based operations. The new offices were the beginning of an expansion plan that included the addition of a new regional site roughly every 90 days, with new locations to includeFlorida,California,Cairo,andJerusalem.[41]According to a 2014Pew Research Centerstudy, 3% of respondents got their news fromBreitbartin a typical week, and 79% of its audience reported having political values that are right-of-center.[42]

Under Bannon's management,Breitbart Newsaligned with the Americanalt-right,[21]the Europeanpopulist right,[19]thepan-European nationalistidentitarian movement,[20]and thecounter-jihadmovement.[43]Bannon declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016,[22]but denied all allegations ofracismand later stated that he rejected what he called the "ethno-nationalist"tendencies of the alt-right movement.[44]One of Bannon's coworkers said he wasn't referring toRichard Spencerbut instead to "the trolls onRedditor4Chan".[45]The owners ofBreitbart Newsdeny that their website has any connection to the alt-right or has ever supportedracistorwhite supremacistviews.[46]Anthony R. DiMaggio has described these denials as "gaslighting".[47]

Breitbart Newsspokesperson Kurt Bardella stated in 2015 that the site "is a for-profit operation".[48]The company's investors include computer scientist and hedge fund CEO Robert Mercer.[48]Editors commented in 2015 that the site is a "private company and we don't comment on who our investors or backers are."[49]According to theLos Angeles Times,web traffic is vital to the company as it supports itself from advertising revenue.[46]

Support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

Alex Marlow,editor-in-chief ofBreitbart News

Breitbart Newsstrongly supportedDonald Trumpin the2016 United States presidential election.In July 2015,Politicoreported thatTed Cruz"likely has the Republican presidential field's deepest relationship with the Breitbart machine."[49]In August 2015, an article in BuzzFeed reported that several anonymousBreitbart Newsstaffers claimed that Donald Trump had paid for favorable coverage on the site. The site's management strongly denied the charge.[50]In March 2016,Lloyd GroveofThe Daily Beastcharacterized the website as "Trump-friendly", writing thatBreitbart News"regularly savages the GOP establishment, the media elite, the Washington consultant class, and theFox NewsChannel. "[51]

On March 11, 2016,Breitbart NewsreporterMichelle Fieldsfiled a battery complaint against Donald Trump's campaign manager,Corey Lewandowski,alleging that Lewandowski had grabbed her and bruised her while she was attempting to ask a question at an event.[52][53]After claiming thatBreitbart News's management was not sufficiently supportive of Fields,Breitbart's editor-at-largeBen Shapiroand Fields resigned.[53][54][55]ABreitbart Newsarticle published on March 14, 2016, accused Shapiro of betrayingBreitbart News's readers; the article was subsequently removed from the website. Editor-at-large Joel Pollak apologized for writing the article, saying he had done so in an attempt "to make light of a significant company event".[56][57]The website's spokesperson Kurt Bardella also resigned following the incident, objecting to the company's handling of the incident and its favorable coverage of Trump.[6][56]By March 14, several top executives and journalists atBreitbart Newshad resigned, withThe New York Timessaying that "Breitbart's unabashed embrace of Mr. Trump, particularly at the seeming expense of its own reporter, struck them as a betrayal of its mission."[58]Former employees accused Bannon of having "turned a website founded on anti-authoritarian grounds into a de facto propaganda outlet for Mr. Trump."[23]

Steve Bannon at the 2017Conservative Political Action Conference

On August 17, 2016, Bannon stepped down from his role as executive chairman to join theTrump campaignas its new CEO.[59][60]

On August 25, Trump's opponentHillary Clintoncriticized him for hiring Bannon as his CEO in her rally in Reno, Nevada. She quoted theSouthern Poverty Law Center's view that the site embraces "ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas."[61]She also said that the "de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for the alt-right".[62]She also condemned the site as "the Democratic Party's media enemy No. 1" and "racist, radical and offensive".[23]

A 2017 study by theBerkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietyatHarvard Universityfound thatBreitbart Newswas the most shared source by Trump supporters on Twitter during the election.[63][64]

2016–present: after the 2016 election

In November 2016, the cereal manufacturerKellogg'sannounced they would no longer advertise onBreitbart News,saying the site was not "aligned with [their] values". In response,Breitbartannounced plans to boycott the company.[65]Breitbartannounced they would be willing to go to "war" with Kellogg's over its decision to remove ads from the site.[66]

In January 2017, editorJulia Hahnresigned fromBreitbart Newsto work as special assistant to president Donald Trump.[67]

Milo Yiannopoulos,who had served as a senior editor ofBreitbart Newssince 2014, resigned from the company on February 21, 2017 after a video of him making controversial statements in relation tohebephiliasurfaced.[68][69][70][71]

Allies of Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisorJared Kushnercomplained to Trump in April 2017 afterBreitbartpublished several unflattering articles about Kushner.[72]Shortly afterwards, the site's senior editors asked staffers to stop writing stories critical of Kushner.[73][74][75]

Bannon was appointedWhite House Chief Strategistin theadministration of US President Donald Trumpand served in that role for seven months; he was dismissed from the White House on August 17, 2017.[76][77]That same day, he was again appointed executive chairman ofBreitbart News.[77]In January 2018,Breitbart Newsannounced that Bannon had stepped down from his position as executive chairman.[78]

In October 2019,Facebookannounced thatBreitbart Newswould be included as a "trusted source" in its Facebook News feature alongside sources likeThe New York TimesandThe Washington Post.The decision sparked controversy due toBreitbart's status as a platform for the alt-right and its reputation for publishing misinformation.[79][80][81]In October 2021,The Wall Street Journalreported that Facebook executives resisted removingBreitbart Newsfrom Facebook's News Tab feature to avoid angering Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress, despite criticism from Facebook employees.[82][83]

Decline in advertisers and readership

From November 2016 to June 2017,Breitbart's readership fell faster than other news sites.[84]In the two months from April to June 2017, the site lost about 90% of its advertisers.[85]The decline coincided with boycotts aimed at getting advertisers to stop running ads on the site.[86]The boycotts were mainly organized by the anonymous online groupSleeping Giants,[84]which said on June 5 that 2,200 organizations had committed to stop advertising onBreitbart News(and similar sites) due to its controversial positions.[87][27][28][86]Soon thereafter,Breitbart Newstrimmed prominently displayed, overtly racist content and fired contributor Katie McHugh for postingIslamophobictweets about the2017 London Bridge attack.[84][88]

By 2019,Breitbarthad lost nearly 75% of its readership, going from 17.3 million at the beginning of 2017 to 4.6 million in May 2019.[89]

Content and coverage

Accuracy and ideology

Breitbart Newsis afar-right[5]American news, opinion, and commentary website.[6][7]Some news outlets describe it as aconservativenews outlet or as part of thealt-right.[7][90][91][92]One of the site's objectives is to courtmillennialconservatives.[46]It supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign,[23]and political scientistMatthew GoodwindescribedBreitbart Newsas being "ultra-conservative" in orientation.[93]Breitbart Newspublishes articles that critiquefeminism,Islam,andimmigration.[94]The site has also been associated with thecounter-jihadmovement, having employed anti-Muslim writers such asPamela Geller,Frank GaffneyandRobert Spencer.[43][95]

In August 2017, Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large forBreitbart News,described the "mission" ofBreitbart Newsin this way: "#WARhas been our motto since the days of Andrew Breitbart, and we use it whenever we go to war against our three main targets, which are, in order:Hollywoodand themainstream media,number one; theDemocratic Partyand the institutionalleft,number two; and theRepublicanestablishmentinWashington,number three. "[96]

Breitbart Newshas published a number of falsehoods andconspiracy theories,[9]as well as intentionally misleading stories,[11]including a story that the Obama administration had supportedISISduring insurgency against the Syrian regime.[10]It has sometimes published these misleading stories as part of an intentional strategy to manipulate media narratives viadisinformation.[12][97][11]In July 2010,Shirley Sherrodwas fired from her appointed position asGeorgiaState Director ofRural Developmentfor theUnited States Department of Agriculture.[98][99]Her firing was largely in response to coverage inBreitbart Newsof video excerpts from her address to an event of theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) in March 2010, though it was later picked up byFox News.[98]Both NAACP and White House officials apologized for their statements after a longer version of her address was reviewed.

In April 2016, Stephen Piggott wrote in aSouthern Poverty Law Centerblog 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-immigrantideas ".[100]Piggott wrote that the website was openly promoting, and had become associated with, the beliefs of the alt-right.[100]Breitbart Newshas published material that has been calledmisogynist,xenophobic,and racist.[23]The owners ofBreitbart Newsdeny their website has any connection to the alt-right.[46]

TheAnti-Defamation LeaguedescribedBreitbart Newsas "the premier website of the alt-right" representing "white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists."[101]TheZionist Organization of Americarejected accusations of antisemitism, saying thatBreitbart Newsinstead "bravely fights against anti-Semitism" and called for the ADL to apologize.[102][103]An article inThe Jewish Daily Forwardargued that Bannon and Andrew Breitbart are antisemitic.[104]An article byShmuley BoteachinThe Hilldisputed the allegations, arguing thatBreitbartdefends Israel against antisemitism.[105]Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief ofBreitbart News,denies thatBreitbartis 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 isfake news."[106]SciencemagazinecalledBreitbart"a far-right site that avoids explicit white nationalism."[107]

Breitbart Newshas had staff members associated with white supremacists. An exposé byBuzzFeed Newspublished in October 2017 documented howBreitbartsolicited story ideas and copy edits from white supremacists and neo-Nazis via the intermediation of Milo Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos, together with otherBreitbart Newsemployees, developed and marketed the values and tactics of these groups and attempted to make them palatable to a broader audience.[108][109]According toBuzzFeed News,"These new emails and documents... clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most 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."[108]In November 2017, British anti-fascism charityHope Not Hateidentified one of the website's writers as an administrator of a far-rightFacebookgroup that serves as a platform for fascists and white supremacists.[110]

In 2017, theMueller investigationexamined the role ofBreitbart NewsinRussian interference in the 2016 United States electionsand its role in both amplifying stories from Russian media and being amplified by Russian bots in social media.[111][112]In 2017, aBreitbart Newsreporter left the company to joinSputnik.[113]

In a 2017 survey among US readers,Breitbart Newswas voted the third least trustworthy source among American readers, withBuzzFeedandOccupy Democratsbeing lower-ranked.[114]In an October 2018Simmons Researchsurvey of 38 news organizations,Breitbart Newswas ranked the sixth least trusted news organization by Americans in a tie with theDaily Kos,with thePalmer Report,Occupy Democrats,InfoWarsandThe Daily Callerbeing lower-ranked.[115]An August 2019 internal Facebook study found thatBreitbart Newswas the least trusted news source, and also ranked as low-quality, in the sources it looked at across the U.S. and Great Britain.[82]

Breitbart Newshas published several articles accusing theEnglish Wikipediaof having aleft-wingandliberalbias.[116][117][118]In March 2018,Breitbart Newsresponded negatively to a pop-up on Facebook containing content from the Wikipedia article onBreitbart Newsthat described the news website as "intentionally misleading", resulting in several users attempting to change the article's content.[117]In September 2018, Wikipedia editors "deprecated"Breitbart Newsas a source due to its unreliability;Breitbart Newscan still be cited on Wikipedia as an opinion or commentary source.[119][120]Breitbart Newsis also on Wikipedia'sspam blacklist,requiring special permission for links to the website to be used.[121]

Main sections

"Big Hollywood"

In 2008, Andrew Breitbart launched the websiteBig Hollywood,a group blog by individuals working inHollywood.The site was an outgrowth of Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" column inThe Washington Times,which included issues faced by conservatives working in Hollywood.[122]In 2009, the site used audio from a conference call to accuse theNational Endowment of the Artsof encouraging artists to create work in support ofPresident Barack Obama's domestic policy.The Obama Administration and the NEA were accused of potentially violating theHatch 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.[123][124]

"Big Government"

Andrew Breitbart launchedBigGovernmenton September 10, 2009, with a $25,000 loan from his father.[125][126]He hiredMike Flynn,a former government affairs specialist at theReason Foundation,as Editor-in-Chief of Big Government.[127]The site premiered with hidden camera video footage taken byHannah GilesandJames O'KeefeatAssociation of Community Organizations for Reform 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 impression of ACORN.[128][129][130]

"Big Journalism"

In January 2010, Andrew Breitbart launched "Big Journalism". he toldMediaite:"Our goal at Big Journalism is to hold the mainstream media's feet to the fire. There are a lot of stories that they simply 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 cover stuff like they did before."[125]"Big Journalism" was edited byMichael A. Walsh,a former journalism professor andTimemagazine music critic.[125]

"National Security"

BigPeace,which later became the "National Security" component ofBreitbart News,debuted on July 4, 2010. National Security covers foreign policy, the wars inIraqandAfghanistan,terrorism,Islamic extremism,espionage, border security, and energy issues.[131]

"Breitbart Tech"

See also:Gamergate (harassment campaign)

On October 27, 2015, the website launched "Breitbart Tech", atechnology journalismsubsection of the site that focuses on technology, gaming,esports,andinternet culture.[132][133]It was initially edited by Milo Yiannopoulos, who was recruited by Bannon, until his resignation on February 21, 2017, following thecontroversy surrounding questionable comments he made regarding hebephilia and the sexuality of childrenduring two podcasts.[134][135][136]In July 2016, Yiannopoulos was banned fromTwitterafter racist abuse was directed towardsGhostbustersactressLeslie Jonesfollowing Yiannopoulos's insulting tweets about her.[137][138]Although Yiannopoulos's Twitter account was removed,Breitbart Newshas since republished the full tweet exchange and has published articles criticizing Twitter.[139]Yiannopoulos mostly wrote about cultural issues, particularlyGamergate.[134]

Radio

Breitbart News Dailybegan production onSirius XM Patriotin 2015.[140][141]

Regional sections

"Breitbart London"

Breitbart News's London edition was launched in February 2014. It was headed at the time by executive editorJames Delingpole,described as a "high traffic hire" byThe Spectator's Steerpike column.[142]He co-founded it withRaheem Kassam.[143]

"Breitbart Jerusalem"

Logo for "Breitbart Jerusalem"

On November 17, 2015, the website launched "Breitbart Jerusalem", which covers events in Israel and the wider Middle East. It is edited by Israel-based American reporterAaron Klein.[144][145]Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has been an occasional columnist.[146]

"Breitbart Texas"

Breitbart News's Texas edition was launched in February 2014 and its editor and managing director at launch wasBrandon Darby.[147][148]Michael Quinn Sullivanwas a founding contributor.[148]

Notable events

ACORN undercover videos

Main article:ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy

Breitbart Newsplayed a central role in the 2009 ACORN video controversy, which resulted in the reorganization of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), as well as its loss of private and government funding.Breitbart Newscontributor Hannah Giles posed as a prostitute fleeing an abusivepimpand seeking tax and legal advice on how to run an illegal business that included the use of underage girls in the sex trade, while James O'Keefe, another contributor, posed as her boyfriend. They clandestinely videotaped meetings with ACORN staff who "gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income."[149][150]

Andrew Breitbart paid Giles and O'Keefe $32,000 and $65,000, respectively, to film, edit and blog about the videos.[151][152]Giles paid $100,000 and O'Keefe paid $50,000[152]to settle a lawsuit brought by former ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera regarding the videos.[153][154]

Subsequent investigations by theBrooklyn District Attorney's office and the California Attorney General found the videos were heavily edited in an attempt to make ACORN's responses "appear more sinister",[150][155][156]and contributed to the group's demise.[157][158]Clark Hoyt,The New York Timespublic editor,wrote, "The videos were heavily edited. The sequence of some conversations was changed. Some workers seemed concerned for Giles, one advising her to get legal help. In two cities, ACORN workers called the police. But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context." However, a former Massachusetts Attorney General hired to investigate the matter found no pattern of illegal conduct by the ACORN employees and said the news media should have been far more skeptical, demanding the raw video from which the edited versions were produced.[159]

Shirley Sherrod's remarks at NAACP fundraiser

Main article:Firing of Shirley Sherrod

In July 2010,Breitbart Newsreleased an edited video titled "Proof NAACP Awards Racism" which featured USDA official Shirley Sherrod speaking at a NAACP fundraising dinner in March 2010. In the video, Sherrod admits to a racial reluctance to help a white farmer obtain government aid. As a result of the video, the NAACP condemned Sherrod's remarks, and U.S. government officials called on Sherrod to resign, which she did.[98][160]

The NAACP later posted the longer 43-minute video of the speech.[160][161]In it, Sherrod said her reluctance to help a white man was wrong, and she had ended up assisting him. The NAACP then reversed their rebuke of Sherrod,[160]andSecretary of AgricultureTom Vilsackapologized and offered Sherrod a new government position.[162]Andrew Breitbart 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 theTea Party movementof harboring.[163]In 2011, Sherrod sued Andrew Breitbart and his business partner Larry O'Connor fordefamation.[164]In 2015, Sherrod and Andrew Breitbart's estatesettledthe case.[165]

Anthony Weiner sexting scandal

Main article:Anthony Weiner sexting scandals

On May 28, 2011,Breitbart News'sBigJournalismwebsite reported on a sexually explicit photo linked on New York RepresentativeAnthony Weiner's Twitter feed.[166]Weiner initially denied that he had sent a 21-year-old female college student the link to the photograph, but later admitted to inappropriate online relationships. On June 6,Breitbart Newsreported other photos Weiner had sent, including one that was sexually explicit. Two days later, the sexually graphic photo was leaked after Andrew Breitbart participated in a radio interview with hostsOpie and Anthony.Andrew Breitbart stated that the photo was published without his permission.[167]Weiner subsequently resigned from his congressional seat on June 21.

"Friends of Hamas" story

On February 7, 2013, Ben Shapiro published an article onBreitbart Newsreporting allegations that former Senator and nominee forUnited States Secretary of DefenseChuck Hagel(R-Nebraska) may have been paid to speak at an event sponsored by a group called "Friends ofHamas".Breitbart Newssaid that the story was based on exclusive information from U.S. Senate sources.[168]

An investigation bySlatereporterDavid Weigelfailed to confirm the existence of the purported group.[168]On February 19, New YorkDaily Newsreporter Dan Friedman said that the story had originated from a sarcastic comment he had made to a congressional staffer. "Friends of Hamas" was one of several groups which Friedman considered to be so over-the-top as to be implausible and obviously fictitious. He was investigating rumors that Hagel had been paid for speaking to "controversial organizations", and asked sarcastically whether he had addressed "Friends of Hamas". Friedman followed with an email to the congressional staffer asking if Hagel had received a $25,000 fee from "Friends of Hamas" for his speaking engagement.[169]No reply to the email was received, and the next day,Breitbart Newsran a story with the headline "Secret Hagel Donor?: White House Spox Ducks Question on 'Friends of Hamas'."[170][171]

Shapiro maintained that the report was accurate, claiming that the source was not Friedman.[172][173]Writers forThe Washington Post,[174]New Yorkmagazine[173]andThe Daily Beast[175]criticizedBreitbart Newsfor the "Friends of Hamas" story, calling it "wrong" and "made-up".

Nancy Pelosi/Miley Cyrus ad campaign

In April 2014,Breitbart Newscreated an advertising campaign to launchBreitbart California,which included posters bearing an image of House minority leaderNancy Pelosi's head superimposed onto singerMiley Cyrus's body as seentwerkingon California governorJerry Brown,spoofing the 2013VMAs.DNCChairwoman and Florida CongresswomanDebbie Wasserman Schultzdenounced the images as disrespectful to women. In response, House Majority WhipKevin McCarthyrequested that his column be removed from the site.[176][177][178][179]

Misidentification of Loretta Lynch

On November 8, 2014,Breitbart Newsposted an article by Warner Todd Huston, which erroneously reported thatLoretta Lynch,President Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general, had been part ofBill Clinton's defense team during theWhitewater scandalabout theWhitewater Development Corporation.In fact, the Whitewater lawyer was a different Loretta Lynch. After this mistake was pointed out byTalking Points MemoandMedia Matters for America,Breitbart Newsnoted that the two Lynches were different people by correcting and appending the original article.[180]Andrew Rosenthal ofThe New York Timeseditorial page editor criticized this, writing: "The appended correction didn't really do justice to the scope of the misidentification."[181]

TheAmerican Journalism Reviewsaid "that Breitbart had let the mistaken fact stand in the headline and the article itself," and had published a second story containing the incorrect information on November 9. By November 10, the initial story had been deleted fromBreitbart.[180][182]PolitiFactrated the claim "Pants on Fire" and noted that the false claim had "already spread to other conspiracy, opinion and conservative news websites", as an example of how fast false information can spread on the Internet.[183]

Conspiracy theories about President Obama

According toThe New York Times,Breitbart Newspromoted the falsehood that President Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim ( "birtherism").[184]InDevil's Bargain,however,Joshua Greenwrites that Breitbart never promoted birtherism.[185]Breitbartsenior editor-at-large Joel Pollak has denied thatBreitbart Newshad ever "advocated the narrative of 'Birtherism.'"[186]

In June 2016,Breitbart Newsfalsely claimed President Obama supported terrorists.[10]

In March 2017,Breitbart Newspublished a story byconservative talk radiohostMark Levinclaiming that Obama hadwiretappedDonald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.[187][188]President Trump repeated the claims on his Twitter feed less than 24 hours afterBreitbart Newsran the story.[187][189]

Conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton

During the 2016 presidential election,Breitbart Newswere accused byRolling Stonemagazine of promoting conspiracy theories including the debunkedPizzagate conspiracy theory,which alleged that high-ranking Democrats were involved a child sex ring.[190]The website made unconfirmed claims about Hillary Clinton's health, including asserting she had issues caused by a supposed brain injury.[191][192]A June 2016Breitbart Newsarticle presented Stone's conspiracy theory that Clinton aideHuma Abedinwas involved with terrorism.[193]

False report of Muslim mob in Germany

On January 3, 2017,Breitbart News's Virginia Hale wrote that "At New Year's Eve celebrations inDortmunda mob of more than 1,000 men chanted 'Allahu Akhbar', launched fireworks at police, and set fire to a historic church ".[194][195]According toAgence France-Presse,the story gave the impression of "chaotic civil war-like conditions in Germany, caused by Islamist aggressors".[196]The story was later shown to be false;[197]St. Reinold's Churchis neither the oldest church in Germany nor was the church set on fire. While 1000 people did gather, which is not unusual on New Year's Eve in a public place, video footage from the scene does not show a "mob", and no policemen were targeted.[198][199]The official police report recorded an "average to quiet New Year's Eve" with "no spectacular facts to report",[200]while firefighters note an "almost normal weekend night" and state that a "safety net at the Reinoldi church caught fire by a fireworks rocket, but was quickly extinguished".[201]Witness said it was not the church roof that was scorched, but a construction scaffolding on the church's far side, away from the crowd.[202][203]The group that shouted "Allahu Akbar" consisted of only 50–70 people and was celebrating theceasefire in Aleppo.[202]

The false story was then subsequently picked up by an Austrian far-right website before it made its way back to Germany where politicianThorsten Hoffmannfell for it. In Germany, several newspapers reported onBreitbart Newspublishing the hoax and distorting facts.[198][204][205][206]Breitbart Newsinitially declined to comment,[196][207]but later updated its story to state that it stood by its claims, which had been shown to be false, and the only correction issued was with regard to the church's age. On January 8, it published an article calling the criticism of its initial story "fake 'fake news'".[208]The follow-up story used a screen capture of different fireworks at the near side of the church, with no scaffolding.Ruhr Nachrichten,the original outlet and the alleged witness cited byBreitbart News,replied to the update, and stated thatBreitbart Newshad not contacted them or the firefighters present to verify their story. They also reiterated the accusation againstBreitbart Newsof exaggerating minor facts to give a false "impression that a 'mob' of 1000 migrants had shot at Christian churches in Dortmund and set them on fire."[209]The newspaper went on to accuseBreitbart Newsof not adhering tojournalistic ethics.Ruhr Nachrichtenalso accusedBreitbartof "using our online reports for fake news, hate and propaganda" and published video fragments recorded on site that contradictedBreitbart News's story.[199]

Climate change denial

In November 2016,Breitbart Newspublished an article summarizing aDaily Mailpiece that falsely claimed that record-high global temperatures were unrelated toglobal warming.[29]TheBreitbartarticle, byJames Delingpole,was cited by theUnited States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,for which the latter itself was criticized.[210][211][212]Weathercondemned theBreitbartstory in an article titled "Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans".[213]

In June 2017,Breitbart Newspublished an article by Dellingpole that claimed that 58 scientific papers disprovedanthropogenic climate change.A number of scientists criticized the article, describing it as cherry-picking, derogatory, inaccurate, misleading, and employing flawed reasoning.[214]In April 2019,Breitbart Newspublished an article that claimed that a scientific study on past climate proved that man-made climate change was a hoax. Climate scientists sharply criticized the article, variously describing it as ignorant, misleading, and misrepresentative of the study's actual findings.[215]

In November 2021, a study by theCenter for Countering Digital HatedescribedBreitbart Newsas being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook disputed the study's methodology.[216][217][218]

Picturing Lukas Podolski in an article about refugees

In August 2017,Breitbart Newsfeatured a picture of professional German soccer playerLukas Podolskiin an article entitled "Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis".[219][220][221]Podolski is neither a migrant gang member nor a victim of human trafficking.[219]The picture was of Podolski riding a jet-ski in the summer of 2014 in Brazil.[219]Breitbart Newsapologized to Podolski after the picture drew attention.[219]

False story about Northern California wildfires

In October 2017,Breitbart Newspublished a false story claiming that anillegal immigrantwas arrested in connection with theOctober 2017 Northern California wildfires.[222]Sonoma County's sheriff department responded toBreitbart's reporting, "This is completely false, bad, wrong information thatBreitbartstarted and is being put out into the public. "[222]

COVID-19 misinformation

Breitbart Newslivestreamed a widely viewed video on July 27, 2020, featuring a group calledAmerica's Frontline Doctors,that made dubious claims related to theCOVID-19 pandemicand toutedhydroxychloroquineas a cure.[30]The group was led by Dr.Simone Gold,reportedly a Trump supporter who has advocated the use of hydroxychloroquine on conservative talk radio and podcasts.[223]President Donald Trump shared several versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter followers before they were taken down.[224][223]The video was removed by Facebook, Twitter, andYouTubefor violating policies against COVID-19misinformation.The president's sonDonald Trump Jr.was restricted from Twitter for 12 hours for sharing it. The video event was funded by the right-wing groupTea Party Patriots.[224]The video had 14 million views and was shared 600,000 times on Facebook before it was taken down.[30][225][224]Breitbartdid not immediately respond to CNBC when asked about the video being removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.[223]

Voter fraud

See also:2020 United States presidential election § False claims of fraud

In August 2020, aBreitbartarticle cited a press release by Michigan secretary of stateJocelyn Bensonabout the state rejecting over 800 ballots cast by voters who died before the date of the election. The article was written in a way suggesting that the ballots were not legitimately cast and thus evidence of extensive voter fraud. In fact, the voters in question died after submitting their ballots. The article was shared byDonald Trump Jr.onTwitter.[226]

In November 2020,Breitbart Newspublished an article alleging that "hundreds of unofficial Republican observers concerned about fraud" had been barred from observing the counting ofabsentee ballotsin Detroit. The British disinformation analysis organizationLogicallyfound that the claim was misleading, as both Republican and Democratic poll challengers had been barred due to both parties having exceeded the law-mandated maximum of 134 challengers. The article was shared by President Donald Trump on Twitter.[227]

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