How a Veteran of Fox News Boycotts Does It

This week, a number of companies pulled their ads from Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show after the Times reported that the host and his employer have paid millions of dollars to settle accusations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior by O’Reilly. Angelo Carusone took the opportunity to begin tweeting from an account that he set up in March, 2010: @stoporeilly. In 2009, Carusone’s @stopbeck account pressured brands to pull ads from the program that Glenn Beck, the conspiracy-minded conservative commentator, was then hosting on Fox News. It proved an effective tactic. Partly in response to Carusone’s tweets, advertisers began to disassociate themselves from Beck’s show. Beck and Fox News parted ways in 2011. Carusone started working at Media Matters, the left-wing nonprofit that battles what it considers “conservative misinformation” in the media, in 2010. He’s now the president of the organization. On Tuesday, Carusone spoke by phone about his Beck campaign in light of the ongoing O’Reilly situation. His account has been edited and condensed.

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