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Politics News and opinion |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Breitbart News Network, LLC |
| Created by | Andrew Breitbart |
| Editor |
Alexander Marlow (editor-in-chief) Wynton Hall (managing editor) Joel Pollak (senior-editor-at-large) |
| CEO | Larry Solov |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 942(Global May 2017[update]) 288(US May 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required to comment) |
| Launched | 2007 (as Breitbart.tv) |
| Current status | Active |
Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a far-rightLos Angeles-based news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart. Co-founder Larry Solov is the co-owner (along with Andrew Breitbart's widow Susie Breitbart and the Mercer family) and CEO, while Alexander Marlow is the editor-in-chief, Wynton Hall is managing editor, and Joel Pollak and Peter Schweizer are senior editors-at-large. Breitbart News is headquartered in Los Angeles, with bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem.
Conceived by conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart during a visit to Israel in mid-2007 as a website "that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel", Breitbart News later aligned with the European populist right and American alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon.The New York Times describes Breitbart News as an organization with "ideologically driven journalists" that generates controversy "over material that has been called misogynist, xenophobic and racist".
Bannon declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016, but denied all allegations of racism and later stated that he rejected the "ethno-nationalist" tendencies of the alt-right movement. One of Bannon's coworkers said he was not referring to Richard Spencer but instead to "the trolls on Reddit or 4Chan." The owners of Breitbart News deny their website has any connection to the alt-right or has ever supported racist or white supremacist views. Breitbart News voiced support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and political scientist Matthew Goodwin described Breitbart News as being "ultra-conservative" in orientation. After the election, more than 2,000 organizations removed Breitbart News from ad buys following Internet activism campaigns denouncing the site's controversial positions.
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