According to a Newship analysis for the first quarter of 2025, Breitbart News is part of the Social Media Giants Facebook and X's top 10 publishers.
Overall, the report observation It is described as the overall increase in engagement across almost every platform, with news coming back to Facebook in a big way in the first quarter of the year. Furthermore, the analysis focuses in part on what it describes as a “right wing ascendant,” which highlights the best performance nature of publishers such as Breitbart News on social media.
According to the report, “Breitbart and Newsmax both stand out among the top 10, outperforming almost all mainstream news content.” They provided one of the X posts from Breitbart News as a reference.
The analysis also provides a chart showing the top web publishers, with Breitbart News firmly in the top 10. BBCNews, The The The New York Timesdaily wire, Daily Mail, Reuters and NPR all follow Breitbart.
For each report:
The rest of the top 10 web publishers had similar total engagements, with the majority gaining more than 100 million people engaged. Although it was not the top publisher overall, the Atlantic broke through within the top articles, with four out of ten all gaining hundreds of thousands of engagements.
Overall, out of the 50 publishers, engagement rose 38% compared to the first quarter of 2024.
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Overall, the report highlighted an increase in news publishers' engagement on Facebook. This is described as “the harshest and most dramatic discovery of this report,” with the algorithm changing in January, stating that “we see a 200% increase compared to the first quarter of 2024.”
Fox News won top rank in Facebook publishers in the first quarter of the year, boasting 115 million engagement. Newswhip says it's an astounding 743% increase from its first quarter results in 2024.
Breitbart News stands as one of Facebook's top publishers with over 31 million engagements in front of Newsmax, Metro and Metro. Daily Mail, NBC News, New York Timesand people.
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The report also stated that despite Fox News being number one in the category, “it was not responsible for any of the top 10 posts on the platform, which suggests once again it is a result of volume and consistency when compared to other publishers on the chart.”
The report also found conservative publishers, particularly “successful success” in the first quarter. Bleacher Report has earned the top spot when it comes to X's top publishers, but Breitbart News has once again created the list.
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Furthermore, the report found that President Donald Trump “promoting hard news engagement on Instagram” while identifying Tiktok as the “dominant news platform” for analysis, and that ESPN stands as the top publisher of that particular platform. ESPN also has a top spot as the top publisher of all platforms.
“I rarely get surprised at the surprising things I achieved with Breitbart News, but these numbers hit my chin on the floor,” Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said in a statement. “Our team is fast, fearless, fun and the most accurate news source in the world. That's why we've gained such a huge audience. congratulations We would like to thank everyone in our virtual newsroom and everyone who read and supported us. ”
The analysis comes as President Donald Trump took the reins in January, causing Breitbart news to be taller and crushing facilities on Facebook in the first week of President Donald Trump's second term and the first week of Prime Minister.
As Breitbart News reported at the time:
During President Trump's first seven days, Breitbart News saw a total interaction of 2,714,627 on Facebook. New York TimesCNN, hillMSNBC, etc.
New York Times Despite having over 13 million page likes than Breitbart News, there was a total of 1,415,445 interactions, despite having around 18.2 million over Breitbart News.
In third place, CNN appeared in a total of 1,320,053 interactions on Facebook. Again, this is well below the 2.7 million interactions of Breitbart News, despite the fact that CNN has a whopping 34.5 million pages of likes.
“At Breitbart News, we're not just recording history. We're part of it,” Marlowe said at the time. “It's not so surprising, but exciting to see our crew dominate a billion-dollar media conglomerate.”
“We're all grateful to the audience who made it a reality,” he concluded.
