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This Is How Steve Bannon And Breitbart Tried To Sabotage Twitter
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/inside-steve-bannons-war-against-twitter?utm_term=.yyodmVd6A#.ck5BXnBGPSteve Bannon and his associates at Breitbart News planned a broad financial, legal, and editorial campaign to damage Twitter, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The campaign, waged in the months before Bannon left his job as chair of Breitbart and took control of Donald J. Trump’s presidential run in August 2016, sought to devalue and weaken the social network that had banned his employees and, he believed, silenced conservative voices.
“Should we sue Twitter?” Breitbart’s then–technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos wrote in an email to his boss in late July 2016. “I’d crush the optics.”
“Yes,” replied Bannon, before continuing in another follow-up email. “Already talked to lawyers.”
The campaign, waged in the months before Bannon left his job as chair of Breitbart and took control of Donald J. Trump’s presidential run in August 2016, sought to devalue and weaken the social network that had banned his employees and, he believed, silenced conservative voices.
“Should we sue Twitter?” Breitbart’s then–technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos wrote in an email to his boss in late July 2016. “I’d crush the optics.”
“Yes,” replied Bannon, before continuing in another follow-up email. “Already talked to lawyers.”
