I guess it depends upon what the meaning of hate speech is, is…
The AppNexus advertising network drew a line in the sand today: Breitbart News has been indefinitely barred from using its ad-serving tools for violating hate speech standards. “This blacklist was solely about hate speech violation,” AppNexus’ Joshua Zeitz told Bloomberg. “We did a human audit of Breitbart and determined there were enough articles and headlines that cross that line.” At a glance, the move seems similar to Facebook’s pledge to gut advertising for “misleading, illegal and deceptive” fake news websites, but AppNexus says it isn’t trying to police content — it’s just upholding its existing content standards.
“We would ban this as quickly as a site that has pornography and violence,” Zeitz says. Although Breitbart doesn’t explicitly offer either, AppNexus says it incites violence and promotes hate speech through “either coded or overt language.” The ban won’t pull all advertising from the news site, however — just some. According to Bloomberg, Breitbart never sold ad-space directly through AppNexus, but would be served ads from the company’s customers through a variety of networks and exchanges.
Via Engadget