Andrew Breitbart

Andrew James Breitbart (; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist and political commentator who was the founder of ''Breitbart News'' and a co-founder of ''HuffPost''.

After helping in the early stages of ''HuffPost'' and the Drudge Report, Breitbart created ''Breitbart News'', a far-right news and opinion website, which has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by academics and journalists. * s content demonstrates the venue's commitment to normalizing neofascistic ideology, even as it refuses to acknowledge what it is doing. As ''Rolling Stone'' identified when it ran a November 2016 profile piece, ''Breitbart'' has a troubling history of promoting misogyny, Islamophobia, homophobia, and racism. [...] Concerning black-white relations in the United states, ''Breitbart'' also has an eliminationist-style rhetoric that depicts protests of racial inequality and police brutality as a fundamental threat to the nation.}} * * s success has long been the fake news modules, misinformation and propagandized narratives that form the content core of the ''Breitbart'' News website. ''Breitbart'' has carefully honed an anti-immigration, anti-Muslim online presence in a media universe complete with stories that raise fears of "white genocide".}} * s #DumpKelloggs Campaign |via=Open Research Library |quote=By March 2017, they have collectively purchased less than 0.5 percent of Breitbart’s inventory. These agencies have listed ''Breitbart'' to their list of brand-unsafe websites because the far-right site violated their hate speech policies (Benes, 2017). [...] In the case of ''Breitbart'', brands such as Kellogg’s withdrew ads because they didn’t want to be associated with a media outlet that produces racist and xenophobic content.}} * * }}

Breitbart played central journalistic roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy. Commenters such as Nick Gillespie and Conor Friedersdorf have credited Breitbart with changing how people wrote about politics by "show[ing] how the Internet could be used to route around information bottlenecks imposed by official spokesmen and legacy news outlets". Provided by Wikipedia