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inanna

(3,547 posts) Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:04 PM Nov 2016

Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange

Source: BBC

2 hours ago

A leading ad exchange has blacklisted Breitbart News, which until recently was run by one of US President-elect Donald Trump's closest advisers.

AppNexus said it would no longer allow Breitbart to sell ad space via its platform, after determining that the site had broken its code on hate speech and incitement to violence.

Breitbart responded saying it "has always and continues to condemn racism and bigotry in any form".

AppNexus has not given examples.

But a spokesman said a "human audit" of Breitbart had flagged several articles that had caused it concern because of the language they had featured.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38076579

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Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange (Original Post) inanna Nov 2016 OP

Interesting, Wellstone ruled Nov 2016 #1

google search shouldn't front page list those fake news websites either. Sunlei Nov 2016 #2

Agreed, they should be down ranked in searching in favor of legitimate news sites. nt cstanleytech Nov 2016 #6

Very intertesting. Ellipsis Nov 2016 #3

Congrats on closing the barn door..... Liberalagogo Nov 2016 #4

Blightbart should have been blacklisted years ago meow2u3 Nov 2016 #5

Wish google would omit bart. The vile site keeps showing up when I do google riversedge Nov 2016 #8

No shit. progressoid Nov 2016 #9

Which means, in a week or so, "G_d E_____r" will hack AppNexus. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #7

This is how it's done. drm604 Nov 2016 #10

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Interesting,

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:06 PM

Nov 2016

watch for a work around by the Breitbart Teckies.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

2. google search shouldn't front page list those fake news websites either.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:09 PM

Nov 2016

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)

6. Agreed, they should be down ranked in searching in favor of legitimate news sites. nt

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:49 PM

Nov 2016

Ellipsis

(9,124 posts)

3. Very intertesting.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:11 PM

Nov 2016

This should be a fun weekend.

Liberalagogo

(1,770 posts)

4. Congrats on closing the barn door.....

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:16 PM

Nov 2016

But that dot on the horizon........that's the horse.

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)

5. Blightbart should have been blacklisted years ago

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:47 PM

Nov 2016

Long before the election! Too little, too late.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

8. Wish google would omit bart. The vile site keeps showing up when I do google

Reply to meow2u3 (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 05:08 PM

Nov 2016

searches.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)

9. No shit.

Reply to riversedge (Reply #8)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 06:20 PM

Nov 2016

They actually show up on news feeds. They are NOT a news site.

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

7. Which means, in a week or so, "G_d E_____r" will hack AppNexus.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 04:24 PM

Nov 2016

drm604

(16,230 posts)

10. This is how it's done.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 09:33 PM

Nov 2016

Boycott anyone who advertises on places like Breitbart. Sure, people on the right will try to do the same thing to Democratic sites and mainstream news, but we know from the vote count that there are more of us than there are of them. And I'm pretty sure that we have more economic power.

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