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Techs toxic masculinity and Breitbart: Male journalists secretly leaked intel to former editor Milo Yiannopoulos
KEITH A. SPENCER
10.06.20177:50 AM
A recently released cache of email correspondence revealed direct collaboration between popular alt-right website Breitbart and purported white nationalists and neo-Nazis. While the revelations are damning, they are not entirely surprising to those who follow Breitbarts editorial strategies. More shocking, perhaps, is that a number of purportedly liberal journalists have also secretly colluded with Breitbart over the years.
On October 5, Buzzfeed News published Joseph Bernsteins exclusive report detailing emails and documents internal to Breitbart News staff which detailed the relationship between the right-wing sensationalist news site and the fringe elements that kept correspondence with its former tech editor, right-wing bomb-thrower Milo Yiannopoulos.
As such, the revelations contained in Buzzfeed's report were damning on two different political axes: First, Buzzfeed refuted the notion that Breitbart was the normal news site it always claimed to be, by discovering more intentional connections to the white nationalist and neo-Nazi elements that the site and its lawyers persistently disavow. (As Buzzfeed wrote, Yiannopoulos led the site in a coy dance around the movements nastier edges, writing stories that minimized the role of neo-Nazis and white nationalists.) And second, the report suggested that some journalists had been double-agents for Yiannopoulos and his Breitbart cohort.
Buzzfeed reported that a number of purportedly liberal journalists sent Yiannopoulos story ideas, even asking the provocateur with an army of online trolls at his disposal to mock specific feminist figures. Since publication, those journalists have become the locus of a storm of controversy.
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https://www.salon.com/2017/10/06/liberal-journalists-reportedly-sent-tips-to-breitbart-now-theyre-scrambling/
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)Ostensibly liberal men going to Yiannopoulos so that women they know would be be dragged through the mud and harassed?
That's really depressing. Some days it's like we can't trust anyone at all.
obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)blogslut
(38,019 posts)It's long and terrifying but important:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.lkOXK6p6B#.xdWE7aYaP
LuvLoogie
(7,054 posts)Nobody important, and nobody from any A-list publication. A couple of disgruntled right-wing lurkers working at "liberal" publications from Silicon Valley?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)Guys you never heard of labeled by somebody with very little clue of what liberals actually believe.
ismnotwasm
(42,020 posts)Although Gamergaters were defended right here on DU as I recall.