Breitbart goes limp after 90% of advertisers withdraw, fires worker after anti muslim post
The Pro-Trump Internet And The Alt-Right Are Turning On Breitbart
“People in MAGA world don’t really look to [Breitbart] for breaking news as much as they used to,” Jack Posobiec told BuzzFeed News. Chuck Johnson put it more bluntly. “Breitbart is over,” he wrote.
On Monday morning, Breitbart News fired staffer Katie McHugh, following a series of incendiary weekend tweets broadcast in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack. On Saturday evening, as word of the incidents spread across social media, McHugh tweeted that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there." Her comments reportedly offended a number of Breitbart staffers.
After McHugh's firing, she took to Twitter again to condemn the publication for what she views as censorship. "Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration," she wrote.
Across the pro-Trump internet, McHugh's firing was widely decried as a sign of weakness by Breitbart and an attempt by the site — once led by now-Senior White House Adviser Stephen Bannon — to pivot toward a more moderate editorial strategy. McHugh, meanwhile, set up a donations page on the far-right crowdfunding site WeSearchr, run by Chuck Johnson.
And early Tuesday morning, Johnson — a former Daily Caller freelancer known for his trolling and informal advising of the Trump transition team — echoed McHugh's frustrations in a Facebook post. "I suspect we are seeing the end of Breitbart," Johnson wrote.
"It's basically a shell of its former self. It's not that interesting anymore." Johnson called Breitbart a "click-baity property" and "a poor man’s right-wing Huffington Post."
In a follow-up email to BuzzFeed News, Johnson responded unequivocally: "Breitbart is over."
Another Trump supporter and member of the MAGAsphere on Twitter suggested that the site has lost its edge after Bannon left to run Trump's campaign. "We read (past-tense) [Breitbart] because their news cycle was stuff we were interested in reading, and it seems Bannon was the person driving that vehicle," this person, who wished to remain anonymous, said. "With him unable to do that in his job with POTUS, BB just doesn't have the stories that interest us anymore."
Jack Posobiec — a pro-Trump Twitter personality — echoed that sentiment. "People in MAGA world don't really look to [Breitbart] for breaking news as much as they used to. It's more like The Hill or Roll Call," he said.
Multiple conversations with pro-Trump media personalities suggest the resignation of Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos in February after the discovery of video of him endorsing pedophilia was a turning point for the site.
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The Pro-Trump Internet And The Alt-Right Are Turning On Breitbart
“People in MAGA world don’t really look to [Breitbart] for breaking news as much as they used to,” Jack Posobiec told BuzzFeed News. Chuck Johnson put it more bluntly. “Breitbart is over,” he wrote.
On Monday morning, Breitbart News fired staffer Katie McHugh, following a series of incendiary weekend tweets broadcast in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack. On Saturday evening, as word of the incidents spread across social media, McHugh tweeted that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there." Her comments reportedly offended a number of Breitbart staffers.
After McHugh's firing, she took to Twitter again to condemn the publication for what she views as censorship. "Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration," she wrote.
Across the pro-Trump internet, McHugh's firing was widely decried as a sign of weakness by Breitbart and an attempt by the site — once led by now-Senior White House Adviser Stephen Bannon — to pivot toward a more moderate editorial strategy. McHugh, meanwhile, set up a donations page on the far-right crowdfunding site WeSearchr, run by Chuck Johnson.
And early Tuesday morning, Johnson — a former Daily Caller freelancer known for his trolling and informal advising of the Trump transition team — echoed McHugh's frustrations in a Facebook post. "I suspect we are seeing the end of Breitbart," Johnson wrote.
"It's basically a shell of its former self. It's not that interesting anymore." Johnson called Breitbart a "click-baity property" and "a poor man’s right-wing Huffington Post."
In a follow-up email to BuzzFeed News, Johnson responded unequivocally: "Breitbart is over."
Another Trump supporter and member of the MAGAsphere on Twitter suggested that the site has lost its edge after Bannon left to run Trump's campaign. "We read (past-tense) [Breitbart] because their news cycle was stuff we were interested in reading, and it seems Bannon was the person driving that vehicle," this person, who wished to remain anonymous, said. "With him unable to do that in his job with POTUS, BB just doesn't have the stories that interest us anymore."
Jack Posobiec — a pro-Trump Twitter personality — echoed that sentiment. "People in MAGA world don't really look to [Breitbart] for breaking news as much as they used to. It's more like The Hill or Roll Call," he said.
Multiple conversations with pro-Trump media personalities suggest the resignation of Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos in February after the discovery of video of him endorsing pedophilia was a turning point for the site.
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