In 2016, Kellogg’s and other companies stop advertising on Breitbart after a campaign on Twitter.
(Jim VandelHei – Axios) The big picture: Twitter’s awesome power was on full display on Labor Day as The New Yorker, which had proudly announced Steve Bannon as a headliner at the annual New Yorker Festival, promptly retreated when liberals on Twitter revolted, including other festival speakers who vowed to withdraw.
- New Yorker Editor David Remnick said in an 800-word note to his staff: “I don’t want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I’ve ignored their concerns. … I’ve changed my mind. There is a better way to do this.”
- “If the opportunity presents itself,” Remnick continued, “I’ll interview him in a more traditionally journalistic setting as we first discussed, and not on stage.”
- Bannon crowed: “In what I would call a defining moment, David Remnick showed he wasgutless when confronted by the howling online mob.”
- Bannon added: “Progressives are triggered like never before.”
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In 2016, Kellogg’s and other companies stop advertising on Breitbart after a campaign on Twitter.