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Breitbart to open in France & Germany + Expansion of US branch

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Lime

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Remember, France & Germany have elections next year.

The right-wing Breitbart News Network is expanding its U.S. operations and launching sites in Germany and France, its U.S. editor-in-chief told Reuters, as it seeks to monetize the anger and anti-immigrant sentiment unleashed by Donald Trump’s successful presidential campaign.

Breitbart, which already has a U.K. website, has begun interviewing European journalists to staff the planned new Breitbart France and Breitbart Germany sites, Marlow said. The aim is to help elect right-wing politicians in the two European countries, where anti-immigrant sentiment has been on the rise, sources close to Bannon said.
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US expansion
U.S. Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said in an interview with Reuters last week that he plans to hire more journalists in the United States and increase Breitbart's multimedia production here, with more podcasts and videos.

"There’s going to be more hiring that goes on – I’m already picturing more tech reporting, more media reporting," Marlow said. "We do a ton of politics reporting now so I don’t know that we’ll need to do more but we certainly aren’t planning on scaling back with anything."
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And a little extra tidbit in relation to how fucked up UKIP / Brexit is:
Breitbart London's political and business aims were so closely integrated that Kassam took a brief leave of absence from the site to advise Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit movement. The more popular the "Brexit" movement became, the more people went to Breitbart London to read about it, and the more advertisements Bannon sold.

Bannon's bet paid off: the June 23 vote to leave the EU was Breitbart's most heavily trafficked day up to that point--(overall) both in London and the United States.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-strategy-idUSKBN1342TP

Thanks to Phantast2k in the other thread for posting. Lock if old.
 
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Jeels

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I don't understand where all of this came from. It can't just be as a reaction to Obama because it's heavily ingrained in the BREXIT culture too. They literally just want to watch the world burn.
 
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Crossing Eden

Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
The sooner they go through with that lawsuit, the sooner they can get countersued for wasting everyone's time and go the way of Gawker.
 
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MogCakes

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Perhaps other countries will recognize them as an international hate-soon-to-be-terrorist organization and intelligence agencies will put moles into their ranks.
 
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ElectricBlanketFire

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ponpo

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News organizations expanding into other countries to cover news isn't stran-

The aim is to help elect right-wing politicians in the two European countries, where anti-immigrant sentiment has been on the rise, sources close to Bannon said.
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Oh.
 
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Dierce

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We seriously need a counter organization and to make sure that there are no fascist apologists aboard. We can't let these corrupt and dangerous bigots normalize the worst.
 
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maquiladora

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Following the RT strategy of exporting propaganda networks disguised as an alternative news source.

Disturbing but not at all surprising. Dark days ahead.
 
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Funky Papa

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maquiladora said:
Following the RT strategy of exporting propaganda networks disguised as an alternative news source.

Disturbing but not at all surprising. Dark days ahead.
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At this point I'm ready to bet cash money on Russia partly supporting the expansion in some capacity.

I'm fucking seething.
 
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BocoDragon

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Stigmatize these losers. They want to radicalize the population rightward.
 
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Pedrito

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maquiladora said:
Following the RT strategy of exporting propaganda networks disguised as an alternative news source.

Disturbing but not at all surprising. Dark days ahead.
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I was going to say poor RT and Sputnik will lose some page views now that there will be some competition in that segment.
 
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Funky Papa

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Kthulhu said:
Don't most European countries have laws against outlets like Breitbart?
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I doubt it.

Breitbart wouldn't probably qualify as hate speech since they won't call for violence nor clearly partake in apology of violence. They know how to worm around the law.
 
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jmvmadeira

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Kthulhu said:
Don't most European countries have laws against outlets like Breitbart?
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Hate speech laws. Some do. But what normally happens is that they will hire some more moderate journalists and try to give the site a more conservative look.

You just need to look at some of the writen press in the UK (Express, the sun, etc) to realize that the hate speech only aplies to other people.
 
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Milchmann

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The aim is to help elect right-wing politicians in the two European countries, where anti-immigrant sentiment has been on the rise, sources close to Bannon said.
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We already have RT and Sputniknews in Germany.
 
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Par Score

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Jeels said:
I don't understand where all of this came from. It can't just be as a reaction to Obama because it's heavily ingrained in the BREXIT culture too. They literally just want to watch the world burn.
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It's a racist, sexist, homophobic backlash against the modern world by social regressives the world over.

It's not just a reaction against Obama, though having such a visible black leader helped concentrate the racists. It's not just a reaction against gay marriage, though having such a singular cause helped galvanise the homophobes. it's never just one thing, it's the world at large and the progressive path it's been on.

There will always be dark forces seeking to drag us backwards, it's up to the rest of us to not rest on our laurels and let them, but instead drive forwards at every opportunity.
 
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Joe

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To the French and Germans:

You have to get on top of this right from the start. Let people know that Breitbart is a white-nationalist propaganda mill and try to discredit it, with facts and sources, whenever possible.
 
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michaelius

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Jeels said:
I don't understand where all of this came from. It can't just be as a reaction to Obama because it's heavily ingrained in the BREXIT culture too. They literally just want to watch the world burn.
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The whole world is undergoing a big turn to right since left failed to adress people concerns and prefers to concentrate on ideological matters when people have to worry what they will eat before next salary.

Also internet and social services broken typical media monopolly on information
 
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VAD

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Another contestant for the race to the bottom. We have enough shit eaters in France as it is...
 
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Chariot

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Joe said:
To the French and Germans:

You have to get on top of this right from the start. Let people know that Breitbart is a white-nationalist propaganda mill and try to discredit it, with facts and sources, whenever possible.
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I wish. The people that respond to Breitbad are probably the post-truth people that don't believe in facts and moderate sources. Lügenpresse and all that.
 
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Funky Papa

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Mael said:
You're that eager to see more of Alain Soral?
We just have to bait them to talk about the holocaust and they'll be surgically removed from France at least.
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They'll probably just hire a token conservative, not too outspoken Jewish writer to say the damnedest things about Muslims and call it a day.

Now they are magically not racist.

Same with claiming that they are not homophobes because Milo works for them.
 
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SeanTSC

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Dear France and Germany: Please do every single possible thing in your power, and even beyond that, to crush the Trumpenreich before they poison your countries.
 
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Sweeney Tom

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Joe said:
To the French and Germans:

You have to get on top of this right from the start. Let people know that Breitbart is a white-nationalist propaganda mill and try to discredit it, with facts and sources, whenever possible.
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The worst thing America did immediately post-Brexit was think "it can't happen to us!"

France, Germany: it can happen to you. Stop it. Please.
 
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