Proglodytes admit to using twitter trolls to censor opposition

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Maraya1969 (11,824 posts)

NYT Practical way to cut down fake news!
   
 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/how-to-destroy-the-business-model-of-breitbart-and-fake-news.html?smid=tw-share&referer=

How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News

One day in late November, an earth and environmental science professor named Nathan Phillips visited Breitbart News for the first time. Mr. Phillips had heard about the hateful headlines on the site — like “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” — and wondered what kind of companies would support such messages with their ad dollars. When he clicked on the site, he was shocked to discover ads for universities, including one for the graduate school where he’d received his own degree — Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. “That was a punch in the stomach,” he said.

Why would an environmental science program want to be promoted on a site that denies the existence of climate change? Mr. Phillips figured — correctly — that Duke officials did not know where their ads were appearing, so he sent a tweet to Duke about its association with the “sexist racist” site. Eventually, after a flurry of communication with the environment department, he received a satisfying resolution — an assurance that its ads would no longer show up on Breitbart.

Mr. Phillips had just engaged in a new form of consumer activism, one that is rewriting the rules of online advertising. In the past month and a half, thousands of activists have started to push companies to take a stand on what you might call “hate news” — a toxic mix of lies, white-supremacist content and bullying that can inspire attacks on Muslims, gay people, women, African-Americans and others.

In mid-November, a Twitter group called Sleeping Giants became the hub of the new movement. The Giants and their followers have communicated with more than 1,000 companies and nonprofit groups whose ads appeared on Breitbart, and about 400 of those organizations have promised to remove the site from future ad buys.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028444362

Time to punch back.

[SVPete]

How original! And it worked so well when this tactic was used against Rush in the 1990s.

Somehow I have a feeling that many advertisers are going to look at this tiny obscure group, and then at however many hundreds of thousands or millions of page view Breitbart gets daily and do it little math. And for those who can't/won't do that math, lots more advertisers will rush into any voids.

A moral question ... is Breitbart.com morally obligated to thank these fools and their shills at outlets like the NYT for the free advertising?

[Duke Nukum]

When I go to Breitbart I mainly see ads for stuff I've already bought.



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[thundley4]

“Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy”

I think most of us can agree.

The rabid feminazis that demand their birth control and abortions be paid for by taxpayers are ****ing crazy. Most of them are butt-faced ugly, too.

[BlueStateSaint]

I think most of us can agree.

The rabid feminazis that demand their birth control and abortions be paid for by taxpayers are ****ing crazy. Most of them are butt-faced ugly, too.

The 'butt-faced ugly' came before the 'rabid feminazi' phase, in most cases.

[thundley4]

The 'butt-faced ugly' came before the 'rabid feminazi' phase, in most cases.

In most, but not all cases. Liberalism/feminism is a mental  disease that also manifests itself outwardly.

[freedumb2003b]

The 'butt-faced ugly' came before the 'rabid feminazi' phase, in most cases.

Rush was right when he summed it up thusly: "Feminism was created to give ugly women a chance to participate in society and politics."

[Ralph Wiggum]

How original! And it worked so well when this tactic was used against Rush in the 1990s.

Somehow I have a feeling that many advertisers are going to look at this tiny obscure group, and then at however many hundreds of thousands or millions of page view Breitbart gets daily and do it little math. And for those who can't/won't do that math, lots more advertisers will rush into any voids.

A moral question ... is Breitbart.com morally obligated to thank these fools and their shills at outlets like the NYT for the free advertising?

Wait, Rush is still on the air?

[FiddyBeowulf]

In the past month and a half, thousands of activists have started to push companies to take a stand on what you might call “hate news” — a toxic mix of lies, white-supremacist content and bullying that can inspire attacks on Muslims, gay people, women, African-Americans and others.

That last part should be replaced with "that can inspire some muslims, gay people, women, african-Americans and other to create hoaxes that they were attacked". The middle part I just crossed out for being BS.