German Companies Pull Ads From Breitbart

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Source: investingchannel.com



By: Zero Hedge | Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:08 am

While the WaPo admitted, two weeks after its infamous hit piece on "fringe media" which it labelled as "Russian propaganda fake news", that its entire article was based on reporting that was wrong, the adverse consequences are piling up for the sites named in the list, among which the popular conservative hangout Breitbart. German carmaker BMW, the restaurant chain Vapiano, supermarket chain Rewe, and Deutsche Telekom have all pulled their ads from the pro-Trump news site due to concerns about its content, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
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Deutsche Telekom is also present on the American market through its subsidiary T-mobile, the third-largest wireless carrier in the US. Replying to a DW inquiry, Deutsche Telekom said they "very much regret" that their ads appeared on Breitbart, which according to Deutsche Welle "is often branded a far-right hate site."

The company "does not tolerate discriminatory actions or statements in any way," a representative for the company said. "We reacted immediately, taken the ads off and put the site on a blacklist," they told DW.

The move by German corporations coincides with Twitter campaigns that pressure companies to cut off ad revenue to far-right outlets - the Stop Funding Hate in the UK and the Kein Geld Für Rechts (No Money for the Right) in Germany. It follows a similar decision last week, when as we reported before US cereal company Kellogg's also pulled its ads from Breitbart, saying that its "values" were not aligned with those propagated on the website.........................


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And a few tweets:


Sleeping Giants ‏@slpng_giants 44m44 minutes ago

Sleeping Giants Retweeted Jean Poole

#trunkofKelloggs. It's working!

Sleeping Giants added,
Jean Poole @JeanPoole_AZ
My dogs will see your #trunkofKelloggs and raise you a back seat. Dropped off five cases yesterday at the community food bank.@slpng_giants
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Sleeping Giants ‏@slpng_giants 46m46 minutes ago

CONFIRMED: @Everki has blocked Breitbart from their media plan. Grab one of their bags for a friend this holiday.

[Maraya1969]

1. Someone named Dick I'small just signed their petition. Curious to see who else.

And I would love to support Kellog's and any other company that withdraws from their site.

[tenorly]

2. They know a Nazi when they see one.

[cstanleytech]

3. Nope, they are just afraid of the potential for bad PR and the

negative consequences it could have on their earnings but if they thought they could do business with them and still make money without getting burned they would still do business with them.

[densan]

4. Uhmmm did anyone catch this?

From the actual article/link:

Breitbart, whose former executive chairman is currently Obama's right hand man Steve Bannon, responded with a slew of anti-Kellogg's articles, decrying the cereal company as "far-left" and calling for a boycott of its products.

[MrModerate]

7. "Far left frosted flakes." The stupid, it burns. n/t

[pnwmom]

5. We shouldn't post from Zero Hedge without acknowledging it's a right wing site.

This is why it's referring to WA Post's "hit piece."

[Bad Dog]

6. How many Germans follow Breitbart anyway?

We had a similar thing over here with Fox News. Lots of companies were involved in a rush to extricate themselves from the site, but I think the only people watching it were those looking for advertisers. We have strict rules about factual broadcasting, yet Fox News is unaffected by them. It's because it's too American, other American broadcasters like CNN attempt to inject some international flavour into their reporting but not Fox. It's of no interest to anyone outside America, too parochial and full of outrage about things like UHC which most of us take for granted anyway.

Shouldn't the focus be on the advertising companies who package up Breitbart with a load of other media outlets? From what I've heard a lot companies advertising on Breitbart don't even know they're doing it. If these companies dropped Breitbart the only advertisers would be for stuff normal don't buy anyway.

[pampango]

8. Good to see this but some foreign companies may do the opposite and advertise on Breitbart just

to curry favor with Bannon and the Trump administration.

[mtasselin]

9. boycott

It is a great time to have a national boycott of all companies that support this hate filled organization.