(Carolyn Kaster/AP)Hardly anyone paid attention last November when a strangely named Twitter account, Sleeping Giants, sent its first tweet into the digisphere. Sleeping Giants is a mysterious group that has no address, no organizational structure and no officers. (Erin Patrick O'Connor/The Washington Post)Sleeping Giants’ basic approach is to make Breitbart’s advertisers aware that they are, in fact, Breitbart advertisers. So when an ad appears on Breitbart, Sleeping Giants or one of its 109,000 Twitter followers and 35,000 Facebook followers flag the advertiser, often accompanied by an image of the sponsors’ ad next to a Breitbart story. Closer to the latter description, Sleeping Giants’ spokesman says.
Source: Washington Post September 22, 2017 14:15 UTC