Breitbart News went after the Free Beacon’s founder for criticizing Trump. One problem: https://t.co/PltheSwvIZ pic.twitter.com/EgkKACs3M1

— Media Matters (@mmfa) January 25, 2016

UPDATE: Breitbart News has corrected its piece. The headline now states, “CORRECTED — Michael Goldfarb: Trump is the Politics of ‘Fear, Paranoia, Nativism.’” An attached note reads: “CORRECTION: Our morning lead was a link to a story on the BBC Magazine by Michael Goldfarb. This is not the Founder of the Washington Free Beacon, but a different individual. Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow accept responsibility for this mistake and apologize to Michael and the staff of the Free Beacon.”

ORIGINAL: Breitbart News ran a piece claiming that the founder of the conservative Free Beacon attacked Donald Trump as embodying “the politics of ‘fear, paranoia, nativism.’” But Breitbart News, which has been criticized for being “the most pro-Trump news outlet on the right,” wrote about the wrong person.
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A January 24 Breitbart News piece carried the headline, “‘Free Beacon’ Founder: Trump Is The Politics of ‘Fear, Paranoia, Nativism’” and linked to a January 24 BBC News Magazine piece by Michael Goldfarb. During the morning of January 25, Breitbart News made the article its top story:

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