Breitbart News

Breitbart News Network (/ˈbraɪtbɑːrt/ BRYTE-bart; known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart, or Breitbart.com) is an American far-right news, opinion, and commentary website founded in 2007 by American conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart. Its content has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by various academics and journalists. The site has published a number of conspiracy theories and intentionally misleading stories, as well as having promoted climate change denial and COVID-19 misinformation. Posts originating from the Breitbart News Facebook page are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook.

Initially conceived as "the Huffington Post of the right", Breitbart News later aligned with the alt-right, the European populist right, and the pan-European nationalist identitarian movement under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon, who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016. Breitbart News became a virtual rallying spot for supporters of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The company's management, together with former staff member Milo Yiannopoulos, solicited ideas for stories from, and worked to advance and market ideas of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups and individuals. After the election, more than 2,000 organizations removed Breitbart News from ad buys following Internet activism campaigns denouncing the site's controversial positions. Breitbart's monthy visitors continually declined after Trump's election, from 17.3 million monthly readers at the beginning of 2017 to 4.6 million in May 2019 and to around 700,000 monthly readers in 2024.

The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem. Co-founder Larry Solov is the co-owner (along with Andrew Breitbart's widow Susie Breitbart and the Mercer family) and CEO. Alex Marlow is the editor-in-chief, Wynton Hall is managing editor, and Peter Schweizer is senior editor-at-large.