Right estimate · not a score

Breitbart

🇺🇸US · digital · independent · breitbart.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	2007 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, US (bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem) no source on file
Funding	Privately funded through founder and investor equity in a privately held LLC; no state, government, or public-broadcaster funding was found. Robert Mercer invested at least $11 million in 2011; that equity stake was transferred to his daughters in November 2017.
Reach	Tracked social accounts as of the data snapshot: approximately 1.37 million followers on X (@BreitbartNews) and approximately 394,000 YouTube subscribers.
In its own words	States its goals are to "report the truth – accurately and fairly; to speak truth to power; and in so doing, to expose corruption and abuses of power."
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Anyone hurt is counted, not named

eight deaths given as a number only — in 1 article

Framing of motive

The lede calls the denial a punishment and puts 'fake news' in quotation marks; the officials being sued are left unnamed — in 1 article

How the person shot is named

a status, not a name: the only report that never uses either name calls him an illegal alien — in 1 article

How the place is described

a party label attached to the city in the same clause as the casualty count — in 1 article

From 3584 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 1 false1 misleading2 unverified2 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Larry Solov	person	not disclosed	yes	equity	—	link
Robert Mercer	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link
Rebekah Mercer (and other daughters of Robert Mercer; stake transferred from Robert Mercer)	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Alexander Marlow

Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-chief of Breitbart News since 2008, its first employee and originally Andrew Breitbart's editorial assistant.

Larry Solov

CEO / President

Co-founder, CEO and president of Breitbart News since 2007; became the company's chief executive and an owner following founder Andrew Breitbart's death in 2012.

Journalists

Peter Schweizer

Senior Contributor · investigative reporting · government accountability

Senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute; author of investigative political books including Clinton Cash.

Matthew Boyle

Washington Bureau Chief · Washington politics · White House

Washington Bureau Chief at Breitbart News, covering U.S. politics and the White House.

John Carney

Economics Editor · economics · markets · finance

Economics Editor at Breitbart News covering business, markets and economics; previously an editor at CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.

Rebecca Mansour

Senior Editor-at-Large · politics

Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News since 2016; previously a speechwriter and aide to Sarah Palin.

Ildefonso Ortiz

byline

Brandon Darby