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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by xyz0 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:18PM (#19812361)
"Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream" (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-h...)

Here's one of many relevant excerpts:

> These new emails and documents, however, clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right. It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum — and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream.

> It’s a relationship illustrated most starkly by a previously unreleased April 2016 video in which Yiannopoulos sings “America the Beautiful” in a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by shehryarrr on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:59PM (#19812858)
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are very different. Your dismissal is pretty ignorant.
Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by whenchamenia on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:52PM (#19814183)
They seem to be converging in quality, based on sloppy biased recent articles and sensationalized headlines from the latter.

I think not differentiating the branding better was a mistake, considering buzzfeed is synonymous with clickbait.

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by shaki-dora on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:50PM (#19812738)
So someone asks for a nexus between Milo and white supremacists, and someone linking a source with a video of him serenading neo-nazis with their arms stretched out gets voted down?

The it’s-about-free-speech-not-alt-right-sympathy shtick really needs some update...

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by dang on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:45PM (#19815072)
Would you please not break the site guidelines by taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar? It's predictable, therefore tedious, therefore off-topic on this site.

Even if other comments are already going there, going there worse is not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html