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Various articles by ''The Daily Wire'' have engaged in [[climate change denial]] by making false or misleading claims when they dispute the [[scientific consensus on climate change|scientific consensus]] on [[climate change]].<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Valentine|first=Katie|date=October 30, 2021|title=Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef improved in 2021, but that doesn't mean the reef is 'growing quickly,' contrary to Daily Wire claim|url=https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/coral-cover-great-barrier-reef-improved-2021-but-doesnt-mean-reef-growing-quickly-contrary-to-daily-wire/|url-status=live|access-date=November 2, 2021|website=[[Climate Feedback]]|language=en-US|quote=The Daily Wire's claims misrepresent the findings of the AIMS report.}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> In 2017, when scientists writing in [[Climate Feedback]] described several ''Daily Wire'' articles as inaccurate or lacking evidence,<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Johnson|first=Scott|date=September 21, 2017|title=Daily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-misunderstands-study-carbon-budget-along-fox-news-telegraph-daily-mail-breitbart-james-barrett/|access-date=April 29, 2018|quote=Scientists who reviewed the Daily Wire article found that it greatly misinterpreted the study by saying that it showed that climate projections have overestimated warming. This is incorrect.}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite news|last=Johnson|first=Scott|date=May 9, 2017|title=The Daily Wire makes wild claims about climate change based on no evidence|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/global-quackery-earth-not-warmed-past-19-years-new-study-finds-joseph-curl-the-daily-wire/|access-date=April 29, 2018|quote=The title of this Daily Wire article inaccurately claims that global temperature has not warmed over the past 19 years—in direct contradiction with observations—and the article provides no evidence in support of this bold claim.}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite news|last=Vincent|first=Emmanuel|date=February 28, 2017|title=Analysis of 'Scientists: Here's What Really Causes Climate Change (And It Has Nothing To Do With Human Beings)'|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett-the-daily-wire/|access-date=April 29, 2018|quote=This post at The Daily Wire, which has been widely shared on Facebook, claims that a recent study of variations in Earth's orbit recorded by 90 million-year-old rocks provides evidence against a human cause of current global warming. Scientists who reviewed the post found that it misrepresented the study's implications for modern climate change, as well as the timeframes that the study is relevant to.}}</ref> ''The Daily Wire'' published corrections in two articles, after which the scientists assessed that the updated articles were still misleading.<ref name="Vincent_5/16/2017">{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/daily-wire-updates-article-still-conveys-false-information/|title=Daily Wire updates its article, but it still conveys false information|date=May 16, 2017|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|first=Emmanuel|last=Vincent}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/daily-wire-corrects-story-analyzed-scientists-still-misleading/|title=The Daily Wire corrects story analyzed by scientists, but it's still misleading|date=March 7, 2017|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|first=Scott|last=Johnson}}</ref> In November 2021, a study by the [[Center for Countering Digital Hate]] described ''The Daily Wire'' as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook said the percentage was overstated and called the study misleading.<ref name="Porterfield_11/2/2021">{{cite web |last=Porterfield |first=Carlie |date=November 2, 2021 |title=Breitbart Leads Climate Change Misinformation On Facebook, Study Says |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/11/02/breitbart-leads-climate-change-misinformation-on-facebook-study-says/ |access-date=November 3, 2021 |website=[[Forbes]] |quote=Just ten publishers are responsible for nearly 70% of user interactions with content that denies climate change on Facebook, according to a study released Tuesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which found that far-right news outlet Breitbart is the leading source of misinformation on the platform.... Following Breitbart and the Western Journal, the rest of the top ten outlets publishing climate change denial content according to the study are Newsmax, Townhall Media, the Media Research Center, the Washington Times, the Federalist Papers, the Daily Wire, Russia Today and the Patriot Post.}}</ref><ref name="Toxic_Ten_11/2/2021">{{cite web | date=November 2, 2021 | title=The Toxic Ten: How ten fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial | publisher=[[Center for Countering Digital Hate]] | url=https://www.counterhate.com/toxicten | access-date=November 3, 2021 }}</ref>
Various articles by ''The Daily Wire'' have engaged in [[climate change denial]] by making false or misleading claims when they dispute the [[scientific consensus on climate change|scientific consensus]] on [[climate change]].<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Valentine|first=Katie|date=October 30, 2021|title=Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef improved in 2021, but that doesn't mean the reef is 'growing quickly,' contrary to Daily Wire claim|url=https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/coral-cover-great-barrier-reef-improved-2021-but-doesnt-mean-reef-growing-quickly-contrary-to-daily-wire/|url-status=live|access-date=November 2, 2021|website=[[Climate Feedback]]|language=en-US|quote=The Daily Wire's claims misrepresent the findings of the AIMS report.}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> In 2017, when scientists writing in [[Climate Feedback]] described several ''Daily Wire'' articles as inaccurate or lacking evidence,<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Johnson|first=Scott|date=September 21, 2017|title=Daily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-misunderstands-study-carbon-budget-along-fox-news-telegraph-daily-mail-breitbart-james-barrett/|access-date=April 29, 2018|quote=Scientists who reviewed the Daily Wire article found that it greatly misinterpreted the study by saying that it showed that climate projections have overestimated warming. This is incorrect.}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite news|last=Johnson|first=Scott|date=May 9, 2017|title=The Daily Wire makes wild claims about climate change based on no evidence|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/global-quackery-earth-not-warmed-past-19-years-new-study-finds-joseph-curl-the-daily-wire/|access-date=April 29, 2018|quote=The title of this Daily Wire article inaccurately claims that global temperature has not warmed over the past 19 years—in direct contradiction with observations—and the article provides no evidence in support of this bold claim.}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite news|last=Vincent|first=Emmanuel|date=February 28, 2017|title=Analysis of 'Scientists: Here's What Really Causes Climate Change (And It Has Nothing To Do With Human Beings)'|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-we-know-what-really-causes-climate-james-barrett-the-daily-wire/|access-date=April 29, 2018|quote=This post at The Daily Wire, which has been widely shared on Facebook, claims that a recent study of variations in Earth's orbit recorded by 90 million-year-old rocks provides evidence against a human cause of current global warming. Scientists who reviewed the post found that it misrepresented the study's implications for modern climate change, as well as the timeframes that the study is relevant to.}}</ref> ''The Daily Wire'' published corrections in two articles, after which the scientists assessed that the updated articles were still misleading.<ref name="Vincent_5/16/2017">{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/daily-wire-updates-article-still-conveys-false-information/|title=Daily Wire updates its article, but it still conveys false information|date=May 16, 2017|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|first=Emmanuel|last=Vincent}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/daily-wire-corrects-story-analyzed-scientists-still-misleading/|title=The Daily Wire corrects story analyzed by scientists, but it's still misleading|date=March 7, 2017|work=[[Climate Feedback]]|first=Scott|last=Johnson}}</ref> In November 2021, a study by the [[Center for Countering Digital Hate]] described ''The Daily Wire'' as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook said the percentage was overstated and called the study misleading.<ref name="Porterfield_11/2/2021">{{cite web |last=Porterfield |first=Carlie |date=November 2, 2021 |title=Breitbart Leads Climate Change Misinformation On Facebook, Study Says |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/11/02/breitbart-leads-climate-change-misinformation-on-facebook-study-says/ |access-date=November 3, 2021 |website=[[Forbes]] |quote=Just ten publishers are responsible for nearly 70% of user interactions with content that denies climate change on Facebook, according to a study released Tuesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which found that far-right news outlet Breitbart is the leading source of misinformation on the platform.... Following Breitbart and the Western Journal, the rest of the top ten outlets publishing climate change denial content according to the study are Newsmax, Townhall Media, the Media Research Center, the Washington Times, the Federalist Papers, the Daily Wire, Russia Today and the Patriot Post.}}</ref><ref name="Toxic_Ten_11/2/2021">{{cite web | date=November 2, 2021 | title=The Toxic Ten: How ten fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial | publisher=[[Center for Countering Digital Hate]] | url=https://www.counterhate.com/toxicten | access-date=November 3, 2021 }}</ref>


The "Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing" by academics of the [[Oxford Internet Institute]] described ''The Daily Wire''<nowiki/>'s coverage of [[COVID-19 lockdowns]] and the [[World Health Organization's response to the COVID-19 pandemic|World Health Organization]] as examples of "junk health news" narratives in 2020.<ref name=oxford>{{Cite web|date=April 20, 2020|title=Social Media Misinformation about the WHO, COMPROP Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing|url=https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2020/06/ComProp-Coronavirus-Misinformation-Weekly-Briefing-20-04-2020.pdf|url-status=live|website=[[Oxford Internet Institute]]|first1=Hubert|last1=Au|first2=Jonathan|last2=Bright|first3=Philip N|last3=Howard}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=April 27, 2020|title=Social Media Misinformation and Lockdown Measures in Democracies, COMPROP Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing|url=https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2020/06/ComProp-Coronavirus-Misinformation-Weekly-Briefing-27-04-2020.pdf|url-status=live|website=[[Oxford Internet Institute]]|first1=Hubert|last1=Au|first2=Jonathan|last2=Bright|first3=Philip N|last3=Howard}}</ref>
The "Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing" by academics of the [[Oxford Internet Institute]] described ''The Daily Wire''<nowiki/>'s coverage of [[COVID-19 lockdowns]] and the [[World Health Organization's response to the COVID-19 pandemic|World Health Organization]] as examples of "junk health news" narratives in 2020.<ref name=oxford>{{Cite web|date=April 20, 2020|title=Social Media Misinformation about the WHO, COMPROP Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing|url=https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2020/06/ComProp-Coronavirus-Misinformation-Weekly-Briefing-20-04-2020.pdf|url-status=live|website=[[Oxford Internet Institute]]|first1=Hubert|last1=Au|first2=Jonathan|last2=Bright|first3=Philip N|last3=Howard}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=April 27, 2020|title=Social Media Misinformation and Lockdown Measures in Democracies, COMPROP Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing|url=https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2020/06/ComProp-Coronavirus-Misinformation-Weekly-Briefing-27-04-2020.pdf|url-status=live|website=[[Oxford Internet Institute]]|first1=Hubert|last1=Au|first2=Jonathan|last2=Bright|first3=Philip N|last3=Howard}}</ref> Some scientific studies have identified ''The Daily Wire'' as a [[fake news website]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grinberg |first=Nir |last2=Joseph |first2=Kenneth |last3=Friedland |first3=Lisa |last4=Swire-Thompson |first4=Briony |last5=Lazer |first5=David |date=2019-01-25 |title=Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau2706 |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |language=en |volume=363 |issue=6425 |pages=374–378 |doi=10.1126/science.aau2706 |issn=0036-8075}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Allcott |first1=Hunt |last2=Gentzkow |first2=Matthew |last3=Yu |first3=Chuan |date=2019-04-01 |title=Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/2053168019848554/suppl_file/appendix.pdf |journal=Research & Politics |language=en |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing]] |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages= |arxiv=1809.05901 |doi=10.1177/2053168019848554 |issn=2053-1680 |s2cid=52291737}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ognyanova |first=Katherine |last2=Lazer |first2=David |last3=Robertson |first3=Ronald E. |last4=Wilson |first4=Christo |date=2020-06-02 |title=Misinformation in action: Fake news exposure is linked to lower trust in media, higher trust in government when your side is in power |url=https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/misinformation-in-action-fake-news-exposure-is-linked-to-lower-trust-in-media-higher-trust-in-government-when-your-side-is-in-power/ |journal=[[Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review]] |language=en-US |doi=10.37016/mr-2020-024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Osmundsen |first1=Mathias |last2=Bor |first2=Alexander |last3=Vahlstrup |first3=Peter Bjerregaard |last4=Bechmann |first4=Anja |last5=Petersen |first5=Michael Bang |date=May 7, 2021 |title=Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter |url=https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?fileId=4491271&version=1.0 |journal=[[American Political Science Review]] |language=en |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |volume=115 |issue=3 |pages=999–1015 |doi=10.1017/S0003055421000290 |issn=0003-0554 |s2cid=235527523}}</ref>


In April 2017, ''The Daily Wire'' incorrectly credited the [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development|Housing and Urban Development]] secretary, [[Ben Carson]], with finding over $500&nbsp;billion in accounting errors made by the Obama administration. [[FactCheck.org]] reported that the errors were discovered and published by HUD's independent inspector general before Carson became secretary.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/carson-didnt-find-hud-errors/ |title=Carson Didn't Find HUD Errors |date=April 19, 2017 |work=[[FactCheck.org]] |access-date=April 29, 2018 |first=D'Angelo|last=Gore}}</ref>
In April 2017, ''The Daily Wire'' incorrectly credited the [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development|Housing and Urban Development]] secretary, [[Ben Carson]], with finding over $500&nbsp;billion in accounting errors made by the Obama administration. [[FactCheck.org]] reported that the errors were discovered and published by HUD's independent inspector general before Carson became secretary.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/carson-didnt-find-hud-errors/ |title=Carson Didn't Find HUD Errors |date=April 19, 2017 |work=[[FactCheck.org]] |access-date=April 29, 2018 |first=D'Angelo|last=Gore}}</ref>

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The Daily Wire is an American conservative news website and media company founded in 2015 by political commentator Ben Shapiro and film director Jeremy Boreing.[2][3] The company is a leading publisher on Facebook,[4][5][6] and produces podcasts such as The Ben Shapiro Show.[3] In 2022, The Daily Wire launched DailyWire+, a video on demand platform featuring various Daily Wire content, including podcasts and video productions.[7] The company has released five feature-length films and two television series. The Daily Wire is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Many Daily Wire stories repackage journalism from traditional news organizations while adding a conservative slant.[4][8] Fact checkers have said that some stories shared by The Daily Wire are unverified, and that The Daily Wire sometimes misstates facts to advance a partisan view.[9][10][11]

History

The Daily Wire was conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, who both worked for TruthRevolt, a news website that was formerly funded by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[12] After the duo secured several million dollars in seed funding from the billionaire petroleum industry brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, The Daily Wire was launched in 2015.[12][13][10] Initially, The Daily Wire was supported mostly by advertisements.[1] Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire,[14] manages Bentkey Ventures, LLC (formerly Forward Publishing, LLC), which publishes The Daily Wire.[10] The company's headquarters were in Los Angeles, California.[15] In September 2020, Shapiro announced that The Daily Wire headquarters would move to Nashville, Tennessee.[16][17][18]

The Daily Wire became one of the leading news sites and publishers on Facebook in terms of engagement. In 2018, NewsWhip identified The Daily Wire as "by far" the top right-wing publisher on Facebook.[5] According to NewsWhip, The Daily Wire was the sixth-leading English-language publisher on Facebook in 2019 through the month of March. The site also had the second most articles among Facebook's 10,000 top stories.[19] In 2021, stories published by The Daily Wire received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher, according to NPR.[4]

In April 2019, Podtrac ranked The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show the second most listened-to podcast in the U.S. for the month of March 2019, behind The Daily.[20]

In June 2020, Shapiro stepped down from his role as editor-in-chief, which he had held since the site's founding, and took on the role of editor emeritus. John Bickley was announced as the site's next editor-in-chief.[2]

In January 2021, Shapiro announced that The Daily Wire was beginning a studio for TV and films that would not promote "leftist causes".[21] Its first original movie, Shut In, premiered in 2022.[22]

In September 2021, Shapiro and Boreing announced that The Daily Wire would defy U.S. President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees.[23] The company later filed a lawsuit, which was eventually brought before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared the mandates unlawful with a 6-3 ruling.[24]

In October 2021, The Daily Wire hired Allison Williams, who had resigned from ESPN because the company mandated that live-event staffers get the vaccine and she had decided against being vaccinated while trying to conceive another child.[25] The Daily Wire advertised the hire as "sports without the woke", with a banner that said "did not comply". Williams said she would explore issues "that may be too taboo for other media outlets".[26]

In 2021, The Daily Wire announced a new publishing imprint, DW Books, that would release books by Shapiro, Candace Owens, Gina Carano, and an officer who fired shots in the police killing of Breonna Taylor, among others. According to AP News, this "continues a trend of conservatives setting up channels outside of the New York [publishing] houses", after publishing houses canceled several books seen as promoting extremist views, or refused distribution when other imprints picked them up. DW Books planned to release books through Ingram Content Group starting in 2022.[27]

The Daily Wire's annual revenues exceeded $100 million for the first time as of early 2022, and it had 150 employees.[28] In March 2022, The Daily Wire announced plans to invest at least $100 million into children's entertainment content over a three year period in response to Disney's opposition to Florida's House Bill 1557.[29][30]

As of June 2022, founder Jeremy Boreing said The Daily Wire had 890,000 paid subscribers.[31]

Podcasts and radio

In addition to its written content, the site produces several podcasts, including The Ben Shapiro Show, The Michael Knowles Show, The Matt Walsh Show, and The Andrew Klavan Show.[3]

The reach of The Ben Shapiro Show expanded in April 2018 when Westwood One began syndicating the podcast to radio.[32] In January 2019, Westwood One expanded Shapiro's one-hour podcast-to-radio program, adding a nationally syndicated two-hour live radio show, for three hours of Ben Shapiro programming daily.[33] As of March 2019, according to Westwood One, The Ben Shapiro Show is being carried by more than 200 stations, including in nine of the top ten markets.[34]

On election day 2020, activist and former Turning Point USA communications director Candace Owens announced that she would move to Nashville, Tennessee, and join The Daily Wire with her own show, Candace.[35] It premiered March 19, 2021. Its episodes air weekly and are filmed before a live studio audience.[36] Notable guests include former president Donald Trump, UFC president Dana White, and U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan.[citation needed]

Entertainment

In 2020, The Daily Wire acquired the entirety of PragerU's content.[37]

On January 14, 2021, The Daily Wire released Run Hide Fight, a feature-length drama about a mass school shooting. Its North American release was exclusive to Daily Wire subscribers.[38]

The Daily Wire's first original film, Shut In, premiered on YouTube on February 10, 2022. It was directed by D.J. Caruso and starred Rainey Qualley, Josh Horowitz, and Vincent Gallo in his first film since 2013.[22]

In February 2022, the company acquired domestic rights to The Hyperions, a superhero comedy starring Cary Elwes. It premiered free on YouTube on March 10, 2022; afterward it moved to The Daily Wire site for on-demand viewing.[39][40]

On June 1, 2022, The Daily Wire released the Matt Walsh documentary What is a Woman?, to Daily Wire subscribers.[41] Terror on the Prairie, a western set in Montana and starring Gina Carano, was released to subscribers on June 14, 2022.[42]

On June 29, 2022, The Daily Wire launched the video on demand platform DailyWire+ featuring various Daily Wire podcasts and video productions, content produced by Jordan Peterson,[7] and announced an animated preschool series titled Chip Chilla.[43]

Films

Title Genre U.S. release date
Run Hide Fight Action thriller January 14, 2021
Shut In Thriller February 10, 2022
The Hyperions Superhero comedy March 10, 2022
What Is a Woman? Documentary June 1, 2022
Terror on the Prairie Western June 14, 2022

Television series

Title Genre U.S. release date
The Enemy Within Documentary February 18, 2022[44]
Fauci Unmasked Documentary March 16, 2022[45]
Chip Chilla Animated series TBA 2023

Reception

Accuracy

According to Snopes, "DailyWire.com has a tendency to share stories that are taken out of context or not verified", including an incorrect report on baby names in the Netherlands,[11] a misdated, exaggerated story that protesters were digging up Confederate graves,[46] a false allegation that Democratic congresspeople had refused to stand for a fallen Navy SEAL's widow,[47] and a report that Harvard University was segregating commencement ceremonies (because black students had planned an optional event).[48] The credibility checker NewsGuard assessed in 2021 that The Daily Wire "has sometimes misstated facts, including about COVID-19" but "generally maintains basic standards of credibility and transparency — with significant exceptions".[9][better source needed] The Wikipedia community considers The Daily Wire to be a generally unreliable source.[49]

Various articles by The Daily Wire have engaged in climate change denial by making false or misleading claims when they dispute the scientific consensus on climate change.[50][51][52][53][10] In 2017, when scientists writing in Climate Feedback described several Daily Wire articles as inaccurate or lacking evidence,[50][51][52] The Daily Wire published corrections in two articles, after which the scientists assessed that the updated articles were still misleading.[54][55] In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described The Daily Wire as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook said the percentage was overstated and called the study misleading.[56][14]

The "Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing" by academics of the Oxford Internet Institute described The Daily Wire's coverage of COVID-19 lockdowns and the World Health Organization as examples of "junk health news" narratives in 2020.[57][58] Some scientific studies have identified The Daily Wire as a fake news website.[59][60][61][62]

In April 2017, The Daily Wire incorrectly credited the Housing and Urban Development secretary, Ben Carson, with finding over $500 billion in accounting errors made by the Obama administration. FactCheck.org reported that the errors were discovered and published by HUD's independent inspector general before Carson became secretary.[63]

Relationship with Facebook

In October 2019, the investigative website Popular Information said that The Daily Wire had violated Facebook's policies by creating 14 anonymous pages promoting its content exclusively to boost engagement.[64][65][66] In response, Facebook temporarily demoted a network called Mad World News, which had a financial relationship with The Daily Wire, but issued no penalty to The Daily Wire besides a warning.[67][68]

In July 2021, an article by NPR in a series on disinformation accused The Daily Wire of having found success on Facebook by turning "anger into an art form and recycled content into a business model". It cited among its examples Daily Wire stories on COVID-19 vaccines that disproportionately played up potential side effects.[4][69] Shapiro responded on Twitter by asserting that the NPR story reflected "the establishment media's deep desire to keep people from clicking on stories they want to read".[69]

References

  1. ^ a b Fischer, Sara (January 19, 2021). "The Daily Wire is profitable, and eyeing entertainment". Axios. Retrieved September 13, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b Blake, Andrew (July 7, 2020). "Ben Shapiro stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire". The Washington Times. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "About". The Daily Wire. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Parks, Miles (July 19, 2021). "Outrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build An Empire". NPR. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Partisan Publishers and Political Content" (PDF). NewsWhip. September 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  6. ^ McCool, Alice; Narayanan, Manasa (May 19, 2022). "The Daily Wire Spent Thousands of Dollars Promoting Anti-Amber Heard Propaganda". Vice News. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "The Daily Wire Launches 'DailyWire+' With Addition of Jordan Peterson". Valdosta Daily Times. June 29, 2022. Archived from the original on June 30, 2020. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; June 30, 2022 suggested (help)
  8. ^ Gregory, John (December 2020). "dailywire.com" (PDF). NewsGuard. The Daily Wire's news stories regularly rely on accounts by other news organizations, which range from major news outlets such as ABC News and The Washington Post, to websites that NewsGuard has found to have published false and misleading content, such as conservative website PJ Media and the anti- abortion site LifeNews.com.
  9. ^ a b Gregory, John (March 2022). "dailywire.com" (PDF). NewsGuard. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. The website has also made inaccurate or unsubstantiated claims about climate change.
  10. ^ a b c d Gregory, John (2020). "dailywire.com" (PDF). NewsGuard. An October 2019 article headlined "KNOWLES: AOC Travels To Europe To Cry," made false claims about climate change.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ a b Palma, Bethania (January 16, 2018). "FACT CHECK: Is Mohammed the Most Popular Name for Newborn Boys in the Netherlands?". Snopes. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  12. ^ a b Nguyen, Tina (December 9, 2018). "'Let's Make You Famous': How Hollywood Invented Ben Shapiro". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  13. ^ Stevenson, Seth (January 24, 2018). "The Many Faces of Ben Shapiro". Slate. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  14. ^ a b "The Toxic Ten: How ten fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial". Center for Countering Digital Hate. November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  15. ^ Peters, Jeremy W (October 31, 2017). "In the Heart of 'The Resistance', California Conservatives Are Invigorated". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 22, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
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