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Kellogg’s pulls advertising from Breitbart News amidst campaign shaming brands for supporting far-right title

on Nov 30, 2016 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Kellogg’s is pulling its ads from Breitbart News, the right-wing news site whose former chairman Steve Bannon has been appointed as a top adviser to president-elect Donald Trump.

The decision to withdraw advertising from the site comes in response to mounting pressure from activists calling on marketers to abandon Breitbart News because of its controversial editorial content which has widely been accused of spouting racist and anti-Semiti views.

Activists have been gathering screenshots of online ads at Breitbart News and using them as leverage to pressure companies into pulling them.

Kellogg’s found itself under fire after a Read full story ›

Source: The Drum