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In a 2017 TED Talk entitled Combating Fake News, BuzzFeed’s Anthony Cormier repeatedly derided Breitbart News as “fake news.”

Google monetization director said his team began reviewing content on Breitbart News for demonetization after Google’s “fake news kick-off discussion.”

Despite attempts by the social media Masters of the Universe to censor conservative viewpoints, the social media engagement experts at NewsWhip has listed Breitbart News as one of the top ten Facebook publishers for October 2018.

Join Breitbart News and SiriusXM Patriot Tuesday night for a special Election Night 2018 live stream.

Breitbart News recently revamped the entire website, introducing a number of new features including the “Listen to Story” feature. Readers will now be able to keep up on the news when their eyes are needed elsewhere.

The briefing acknowledged that concerns about free speech on the internet, initially conveyed at Breitbart News, have gone mainstream.

Three-time World Series Champion Curt Schilling is more than a former All-Star Major League Pitcher. He has his hand on the pulse of current events — whether it be cultural, political, or spiritual. Now Curt Schilling gets to make the call, and he’ll be making it every day on Breitbart’s newest addition to its podcast network: The Curt Schilling Podcast. 

NEW YORK — Breitbart News and “the Russians” worked overtime with “screaming headlines” to attack Hillary Clinton over concerns about the former presidential candidate’s health, according to James Clapper, who served as director of National Intelligence under the Obama administration.

Actor-director turned political activist Rob Reiner lamented on ABC’s ‘The View’ Friday that right-leaning mainstream media outlets —such as Breitbart News Network— refuse to overstate Russia’s minute impact on the 2016 presidential election.  

State Department reporters were in a tizzy Tuesday over an exclusive interview U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell gave to Breitbart News on Sunday.

“Spygate” — the revelation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used at least one informant to infiltrate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign — provides further vindication of the contention made in March 2017 by conservative radio host Mark Levin, Breitbart News, and President Trump (in that order) that the Obama administration conducted surveillance of the opposition in an attempt to monitor, defeat, and delegitimize it.

White House chief of staff John Kelly says he reads Breitbart News every morning on his way to work to prepare for his job serving President Donald Trump.

Two Breitbart Sports writers have joined the list of fifteen most engaged sports writers on Facebook, beating writers from Fox News, the Bleacher Report, USA Today, and other outlets.

Analysis of Facebook traffic conducted by Western Journal is further confirmation that the platform’s recent newsfeed change was politically one-sided.

CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post are the big winners from Facebook’s recent algorithm change.

Navarro decried the “hair on fire” reaction from cable news and the press, calling it the “biggest bunch of horse-puckey that you can imagine.”

Breitbart News has beaten competitors including the Washington Post and the Huffington Post in U.S. Alexa rankings.

The Cato Institute, a think tank partially founded by the billionaire, pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, is the subject of new sexual harassment allegations revealed in a report by Politico, substantiating years-old Breitbart News reporting on the culture of sexual abuse at the think tank.

Politicians and pundits are debating the memorandum released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee, which suggests that the FBI used the dubious products of Democrats’ opposition research to obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump associate.

President Donald Trump will deliver a State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, celebrating the accomplishments achieved in the first year of his presidency.

Breitbart News Hits Top 10 Most Engaged Facebook Sites in December

Stephen K. Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News Network, where he served as Executive Chairman since 2012. According to Breitbart CEO Larry Solov, “Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us to accomplish.”

President Donald Trump responded personally to his former chief strategist Steve Bannon’s comments about his family members Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.

According to Noah Kotch, who took over six months ago as Fox News digital editor in chief and vice president, his staff has grown to more than 100 full-time staffers, an increase of about 45 percent in the past year.

Conor Friedersdorf frets at The Atlantic that Breitbart News deserves a lump of coal for its “naughty, not nice” line of “Deplorable Christmas” merchandise.

On Monday. November 20, Breitbart News surpassed its total number of pageviews from the year 2016, making 2017 the biggest year ever for web traffic to the conservative news site. Breitbart.com currently has over 2.2 billion pageviews and counting for 2017, exceeding 2016’s 2.18 billion total pageviews, according to Google analytics.

Executives from top Silicon Valley companies including Facebook and Reddit have agreed to work with the Anti-Defamation League to develop online “hate speech” guidelines.

In a freewheeling new interview with author Keith Koffler, Steve Bannon recounted his upbringing in a “very observant Catholic family” in the 1950s and 1960s and how that molded who he is now.

Sean Hannity warned viewers Monday of the “clear and present danger” from anti-free speech groups such as Media Matters for America.

Coffee-maker Keurig frantically walked back its announced “pause” in advertising with Fox News’ Hannity on Monday after furious conservatives launched a counter-protest — but the standing of an allegedly similar boycott of Breitbart News is unresolved.

Breitbart News has surpassed the Washington Post in the U.S. Alexa traffic rankings.

November 8, 2016, was a historic day as President Donald Trump pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in modern history. But many of the details were lost in the crazy development of the late-night and early morning hours. We asked our Breitbart News staff to share some of their election night memories with our readers.

David M. Drucker writing at the Washington Examiner reports that House Speaker Paul Ryan was not consulted on the discussion Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon had with lawmakers not to primary House Republicans as he has targeted establishment GOP members of the Senate:

Alex Isenstadt and Elena Schneider writing at Politico report that Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon and House Republicans met on Friday to develop a plan to work together:

Robert Mercer, the hedge fund titan who financed the nationalist movement that elected President Trump, stepped down from the helm of his investment firm amid intense criticism. But that doesn’t mean he’s finished with politics. Mercer is limiting his duties to research at the firm partly to allow him to increase his political involvement unencumbered by his business responsibilities, said a person familiar with the matter.

Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon made a special guest appearance on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow to discuss the importance of the Breitbart News audience to the 2016 election, and to the ongoing political debate in America.