<story><title>Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Headlines like this along with the MSM&amp;#x27;s latest push to define &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; is pretty worrisome.&lt;p&gt;Even if you don&amp;#x27;t agree with Breitbart or other outlets, it&amp;#x27;s frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pfhreak</author><text>This phenomena is called &amp;#x27;Reputation&amp;#x27;. It&amp;#x27;s not a replacement for evaluating the value of opinions, but it is a short cut.&lt;p&gt;If Breitbart et al have earned a reputation of being white nationalists, and others use that reputation to evaluate whether they want to consume their media, that seems totally reasonable. If Breitbart wants to eliminate that reputation, they can by regularly pushing content that discredits it.&lt;p&gt;Consider Buzzfeed, who is slowly turning their reputation around. It takes work, and more than one article with good individual content. You have to show a commitment to change, regularly, before that reputation changes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Headlines like this along with the MSM&amp;#x27;s latest push to define &amp;quot;fake news&amp;quot; is pretty worrisome.&lt;p&gt;Even if you don&amp;#x27;t agree with Breitbart or other outlets, it&amp;#x27;s frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>Haven&amp;#x27;t we always lived in that world? Nobody really treats all sources exactly equally, and many people dismiss certain categories of sources as not worth looking into. Depending on the person, this might be outlets they think of as mainly peddling conspiracy theories (Infowars, etc.), it could be outlets they see as too right-wing to be worth looking into (e.g. Breitbart), outlets they see as too left-wing to be worth looking into (e.g. World Socialist Web), etc.</text></comment>