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By Deborah M. Todd

Nov 22 (Reuters) - Breitbart News, the outlet once led by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist, has been blocked by one of the largest advertising exchanges serving digital publishers due to hate speech.

AppNexus deactivated Breitbart News after an audit of the site's content determined that it violates the advertising exchange's code of conduct banning hate speech, spokesman Joshua Zeitz said on Tuesday.

Breitbart Chief Executive Officer Larry Solov said the company "always and continues to condemn racism and bigotry in any form," in an email statement.

The ban comes as the alt-right movement, which includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites, are being emboldened by Trump winning the White House.

Trump on Tuesday condemned the alt-right in a New York Times interview.

Breitbart was previously headed by Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign chairman and chief strategist. The news organization has drawn criticism for promoting far-right, sometimes racist views.

Trump's appointment of Bannon was denounced by civil rights organizations and minority groups including the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League and the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Advertising companies like AppNexus facilitate real-time buying and selling of ads on sites that are part of the exchange. The company has secured deals with publishers including Foursquare, Groupon Inc and Nasdaq Inc .

Zeitz said the AppNexus move was apolitical and the domain can be reactivated once the content in question is addressed.

"We have no interest in turning off sites because of ideology. That's not what this is about. This is about specific content that violates the hate speech code," he said.

Breitbart has used racial slurs and derogatory terms related to sexual orientation on its site that AppNexus feared could incite violence against those groups.

While the step could reduce demand for Breitbart ad inventory and thus cost the site money, AppNexus competitors such as DataXu and OpenX Software offer comparable services, according to tech market research firm CB Insights.

The ban was first reported by Bloomberg News. (Reporting by Deborah M. Todd in San Francisco; editing by Jonathan Weber and Lisa Shumaker)



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It's "hate speech" when the right talks. When the Left talks, then they scream about their rights to Free Speech. Uh huh.

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That is written as if Trump is spearheading a comeback of the KKK and other such organizations. Will those leftist nut jobs ever stop the lies?

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This is the hate speech I witnessed a few days ago, and it didn't come from Breitbart. But hey, this is what freedom looks like, right?



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Well, it only looks like that for the Left. Freedom of speech is the Left being able to kill people, beat people up and destroy property as "free speech".

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Someone on fb was touting the same information, that breitbart is a horrible islamophobe, homophobe, misogynist bla bla bla good for nothing site and we cant trust anyone from there. My response was "for example?" I am still waiting for a response.

This is how you know people are just repeating sound bites instead of making up their own minds.

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