Tony Romm @TonyRomm · 1h NEW: In private meeting between Trump and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Trump grumbled at considerable length about losing followers, source tells me. Once again, Twitter emphasized this happens as it roots out spam.
Forget the 'progressive test', it doesn't pass the smell test. I tried to find a single legitimate news source that has picked up this fact-challenged crap rant from Breitbart. None, zip, nada.
No legitimate news source wants anything to do with Breitbart. It's a site that appeals only to undereducated credulous loons.
Breitbart consist of various sections called Big Government, Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, National Security, Tech, Sports, and Wired.
Breitbart uses sensational emotionally loaded language in their headlines such as “Obama Loses 2 Million+ Followers During Twitter Fake Account Purge.”
They utilize sources such as tabloid entertainment magazine Variety, and credible sources such as Bloomberg. as well as factually mixed sources such as the Daily Mail.
Under the Big Hollywood section they publish tabloid stories such as “Fashion Notes: Melania Trump is Posh and Proper for Final Day in England” utilizing fashion sources such as farfetch.com
In general, the majority of published stories favor the right and are highly pro-Trump in tone and story selection.
A factual search reveals numerous failed fact checks by IFCN Fact Checkers. Here are just a few of many as an example:
?Breitbart Duped by Fake News (Again) (False)
?Following Joe Kennedy’s speech, Breitbart says Fall River, Mass. not built by immigrants (False)
?Breitbart gets the wrong Loretta Lynch in Whitewater claim (Pants on Fire)
?Did Planned Parenthood ‘Team Up’ With Satanists to Promote Abortion Rights in Missouri? (False)
?Trump’s ISIS Conspiracy Theory (False)
Overall, we rate Breitbart Questionable based on extreme right wing bias and publication of numerous false claims. (M. Huitsing 7/14/2018)