Steve Bannon Made Breitbart a Space for Pro-Israel Writers and Anti-Semitic Readers
Under Bannon's leadership, Breitbart became popular with anti-Semitic readers by peddling conspiracy theories about "globalist" puppet masters of the left.
Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey wrote about national and international news through the prism of social media for The Intercept. Before joining as a Senior Writer, he was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times, where he anchored the newspaper’s breaking news blog, The Lede, for five years, and wrote a news analysis column, Open Source, from 2014 to 2016. His work is focused on making sense of events through the close reading of firsthand accounts, photographs, and video posted on social networks by witnesses and participants.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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Ecuador Cuts Internet Access for Julian Assange to Preserve Neutrality in U.S. Election
Ecuador has decided “to temporarily restrict access” to the internet inside its embassy in London, effectively cutting off the editor of WikiLeaks.
Bill O'Reilly and Barack Obama Agree That Donald Trump Should "Stop Whining"
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State of Ohio to Investigate Satirical Tweet That Fooled Drudge and Limbaugh
The Alt-Right meets Weird Twitter, and is baffled.
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Donald Trump Raises Crucial Issue of Whether Reality TV Scenes Count as Sex Tapes
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