A group of New York digital media veterans who used to work for Jared Kushner are embarking on a new project: creating the “Breitbart of the left.” Elizabeth Spiers, previously the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer and the founding editor of Gawker, is attempting to fundraise for the effort, according to two people familiar […]
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The Next Breitbart — For Millennials
If BuzzFeed and Breitbart had a love child, that deeply conflicted baby would be a site called Bold, run out of a humble office in midtown Manhattan and headed by a cool and confident 34-year-old named Carrie Sheffield. Aimed toward groups that the GOP has traditionally struggled to include — women, millennials, African-Americans, Latinos and […]
‘I never said media is enemy, I said fake media,’ Trump tells Breitbart
US President Donald Trump has clarified his hostile stance towards the mass media, explaining that what he actually opposes is media that spread “fake news.” He also outlined some of the topics he’ll touch upon at his upcoming address to Congress. “I didn’t say the media is the enemy—I said the ‘fake media’,” Trump told Breitbart […]
A Breitbart boat party and Trump fans everywhere: What it’s like at CPAC, the largest annual gathering of conservatives
Oliver Darcy/Business Insider The Conservative Political Action Conference took place this week in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC. The annual political confab has been the largest gathering of conservatives since its inception in 1974. Thousands attend each year to listen to luminaries deliver speeches and offer their vision for the future of conservatism. This […]
Report: Milo Yiannopoulos Has Quit Breitbart
It appears that Milo Yiannopoulos’s swift fall from grace is complete, with news that he has resigned from Breitbart News in the wake of a leaked video wherein he makes favorable comments about pedophilia. The video has already cost Yiannopoulos his book deal and his speaking slot at CPac, and now New York Times media […]
Shopify’s Breitbart Fight Proves It: These Days, Tech Has to Take a Side
In this political moment, a company with even the most tangential connection to a Trump-inspired controversy should expect someone to call it out. The post Shopify’s Breitbart Fight Proves It: These Days, Tech Has to Take a Side appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
Riot breaks out at UC Berkeley amid protest of Breitbart editor's speech (LIVE VIDEO)
A protest turned violent at the University of California at Berkeley, resulting in the cancelation of a talk from conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Livestream courtesy KGO. Yiannopoulos, an editor of Breitbart News, was expected speak against “sanctuary campuses,” which promised to protect undocumented students in wake of President Donald Trump’s tough stance on illegal immigration. […]