Another 100 companies pull advertising from Breitbart

[workinclasszero]

Another 100 companies pull advertising from Breitbart
Grassroots campaign encourages Twitter users to name and shame advertisers
Niamh McIntyre @niamh_mcintyre 3 hours ago

Another 100 companies have reportedly pulled their advertising from the far-right news site Breitbart, as the momentum builds behind a grassroots campaign calling on advertisers to boycott the site.

Audi, Visa, T Mobile and Lufthansa have joined the growing list of companies to withdraw, according to Sleeping Giants, the group behind the campaign, which claims that at least 1,250 advertisers no longer wish to be associated with it.

Campaigners have successfully encouraged Twitter users to name and shame companies who advertise on the site by posting screenshots of Breitbart ads.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/breitbart-advertising-deals-companies-advertising-withdraw-pull-steve-bannon-alt-right-campaign-a7599156.html

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1. Shame on them for

.....being there to begin with. The racism and sexism and lie-ism is now exposed to the larger non-Breitbart audience, but the danger and ugliness was always there---and their sponsor bucks helped build him up to where he is today: Part of the cabal of white supremacists in the WH.

[oldcynic]

2. and now you want to close the barn door?

Breitbart was started in 2007. Those companies had no problem with placing ads for the past 10 years. What penalties will twitter ask for them? And will those twitterers vote in 2018?