Left-wing activists plan to continue pushing an advertiser boycott Breitbart, even after Stephen Bannon stepped down as chairman of the right-wing news outlet.<\/b>
\nLeft-wing activists plan to continue pushing an advertiser boycott against Breitbart, even after Stephen Bannon stepped down as chairman of the right-wing news outlet.
Sleeping Giants, which has led a campaign to pressure companies into pulling their ads from Breitbart\u2019s website, indicated Tuesday that the group\u2019s boycott efforts will continue despite Bannon\u2019s departure. Sleeping Giants has been successful in pressuring companies who appear on Breitbart\u2019s website, usually through a third-party ad company, to blacklist Breitbart from their ad buys. More than 3,700 companies have done exactly that, according to a list maintained by the group.
CONFIRMED: With impeccable timing, @TaskRabbit has blocked Breitbart from their media buy! Thanks so much!
\u2014 Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) January 9,2018
Sleeping Giants\u2019 pressure campaign against Breitbart has centered around two people: Bannon and former Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, whose associations with the alt-right were revealed when Buzzfeed published his emails in October.
\u201cThis Bannon news is obviously awesome. He\u2019s a racist bigot that has done irreparable harm to this country. But this doesn\u2019t change our mission,\u201d the group said in a statement. \u201cThe top brass at Breitbart all rubber-stamped working with white supremacists. The work continues.\u201d (RELATED: Left-Wing Activists Want To Defund Mercer Hedge Fund)
In November, Sleeping Giants considered joining a similar boycott effort against Fox News host Sean Hannity\u2019s advertisers. Although the group decided not to join the attack on Hannity at that time, it claimed to \u201creserve the right to change our minds.\u201d So far, Sleeping Giants has kept the identity of its operatives a secret.<\/p>\n

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