''The Daily Wire'' is an American
conservative
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news website
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and
media company
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founded in 2015 by political commentator
Ben Shapiro
Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American attorney, businessman, columnist, conservative political commentator, and media personality. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. ...
and film director
Jeremy Boreing
Jeremy Danial Boreing (born February 5, 1979) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and political commentator. He was a member of Coattails Entertainment, a production company, with Kurt Schemper, Joel David Moore, and Zachary Levi fr ...
.
The company is a major publisher on Facebook,
and produces podcasts such as ''
The Ben Shapiro Show
''The Ben Shapiro Show'' is a daily conservative political podcast and live radio show produced by ''The Daily Wire'' and hosted by Ben Shapiro. The podcast launched in September 2015. , ''The Ben Shapiro Show'' was ranked by Podtrac as the seco ...
''.
In 2022, ''The Daily Wire'' launched DailyWire+, a
video on demand
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platform featuring various ''Daily Wire'' content, including podcasts and video productions.
The company has released multiple exclusive feature-length films and television series. ''The Daily Wire'' is based in
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ...
.
Many ''Daily Wire'' stories repackage journalism from traditional news organizations while adding a conservative slant.
Fact checkers
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Fact-checking can be conducted before (''ante hoc'') or after (''post hoc'') the text is published or otherwise dissem ...
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.
History
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''The Daily Wire'' was conceived by
Ben Shapiro
Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American attorney, businessman, columnist, conservative political commentator, and media personality. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. ...
and
Jeremy Boreing
Jeremy Danial Boreing (born February 5, 1979) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and political commentator. He was a member of Coattails Entertainment, a production company, with Kurt Schemper, Joel David Moore, and Zachary Levi fr ...
, who both worked for ''TruthRevolt'', a news website that was formerly funded by the
David Horowitz Freedom Center
The David Horowitz Freedom Center, formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC), is a conservative anti-Islam foundation founded in 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborator Peter Collier. It was ...
.
After the duo secured several million dollars in
seed funding
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from the billionaire petroleum industry brothers
Dan and Farris Wilks
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, ''The Daily Wire'' was launched in 2015.
Initially, ''The Daily Wire'' was supported mostly by advertisements.
Farris Wilks, a
fracking
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billionaire,
manages Bentkey Ventures, LLC (formerly Forward Publishing, LLC), which publishes ''The Daily Wire''.
The company's headquarters were in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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. In September 2020, Shapiro announced that ''The Daily Wire'' headquarters would move to
Nashville
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,
Tennessee
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.
''The Daily Wire'' became one of the leading news sites and publishers on
Facebook
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in terms of engagement. In 2018,
NewsWhip
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_ ...
identified ''The Daily Wire'' as "by far" the top right-wing publisher on Facebook.
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.
In 2021, stories published by The Daily Wire received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher, according to NPR.
In April 2019, Podtrac ranked ''The Daily Wire''
's ''
The Ben Shapiro Show
''The Ben Shapiro Show'' is a daily conservative political podcast and live radio show produced by ''The Daily Wire'' and hosted by Ben Shapiro. The podcast launched in September 2015. , ''The Ben Shapiro Show'' was ranked by Podtrac as the seco ...
'' the second most listened-to podcast in the U.S. for the month of March 2019, behind ''
The Daily''.
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.
In January 2021, Shapiro announced that ''The Daily Wire'' was beginning a studio for TV and films that would not promote "leftist causes". Its first original movie, ''
Shut In'', premiered in 2022.
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. The company later filed a lawsuit, which was eventually brought before the
Supreme Court
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. The Supreme Court declared the mandates unlawful with a 6-3 ruling.
In October 2021, ''The Daily Wire'' hired
Allison Williams, who had resigned from
ESPN
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because the company mandated that live-event staffers get the vaccine and she had decided against being vaccinated while trying to conceive another child. ''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".
In 2021, ''The Daily Wire'' announced a new
publishing imprint, DW Books, that would release books by Shapiro,
Candace Owens
Candace Amber Owens Farmer ( Owens; born April 29, 1989) is an American conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, and activist. Initially critical of United States President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Owens has be ...
,
Gina Carano
Gina Joy Carano (born April 16, 1982) is an American actress and former mixed martial artist. She competed in EliteXC and Strikeforce from 2006 to 2009, where she compiled a 7–1 record. Her popularity led to her being called the "face of women ...
, and an officer who fired shots in the police killing of
Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment on March 13, 2020, when at least seven police officers forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing op ...
, among others. According to
AP News
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, this "continues a trend of conservatives setting up channels outside of the New York
ublishinghouses", 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
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Shawn Morin is CEO, and John R. Ingram is chairman of Ingram Industries.
History
The ...
starting in 2022.
''The Daily Wire''
's annual revenues exceeded $100 million for the first time as of early 2022, and it had 150 employees. 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
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's opposition to Florida's
House Bill 1557.
In June 2022, founder Jeremy Boreing said ''The Daily Wire'' had 890,000 paid subscribers.
In November 2022, Boreing stated that they have surpassed 1,000,000 subscribers.
Podcasts and radio
In addition to its written content, the site produces several
podcasts, including ''
The Ben Shapiro Show
''The Ben Shapiro Show'' is a daily conservative political podcast and live radio show produced by ''The Daily Wire'' and hosted by Ben Shapiro. The podcast launched in September 2015. , ''The Ben Shapiro Show'' was ranked by Podtrac as the seco ...
'', ''The
Michael Knowles Show'', ''The
Matt Walsh Show'', and ''The
Andrew Klavan
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Klavan has also worked in film and as an essayist and video satirist. He is also ...
Show''.
The reach of ''The Ben Shapiro Show'' expanded in April 2018 when
Westwood One
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began syndicating the podcast to radio. 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. , according to Westwood One, ''The Ben Shapiro Show'' is being carried by more than 200 stations, including in nine of the top ten markets.
On election day 2020, activist and former
Turning Point USA
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communications director
Candace Owens
Candace Amber Owens Farmer ( Owens; born April 29, 1989) is an American conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, and activist. Initially critical of United States President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Owens has be ...
announced that she would move to
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ...
, and join ''The Daily Wire'' with her own show, ''Candace''.
It premiered March 19, 2021. Its episodes air weekly and are filmed before a live studio audience.
Notable guests include former president
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
, UFC president
Dana White
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, and U.S. Congressman
Jim Jordan
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A member of the Republican Party, he is a two-tim ...
.
Entertainment
In 2020, ''The Daily Wire'' acquired the entirety of
PragerU
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Despite ...
's content.
In January 2021, ''The Daily Wire'' released ''
Run Hide Fight
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'', a feature-length drama about a mass school shooting. Its North American release was exclusive to ''Daily Wire'' subscribers.
In November, ''The Daily Wire'' launched ''Adam Carolla Truth Yeller'', a comedy podcast filmed with a live audience, featuring comedian
Adam Carolla
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.
On February 10, 2022 ''The Daily Wire'' first original film, ''
Shut In'', premiered on YouTube. It was directed by
D.J. Caruso
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and starred
Rainey Qualley
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, Josh Horowitz, and
Vincent Gallo
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in his first film since 2013.
After acquiring domestic rights to ''The Hyperions'', a superhero comedy starring
Cary Elwes
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, the company premiered the film for free on YouTube on March 10, 2022. Afterward, it moved to ''The Daily Wire'' site for exclusive domestic on-demand viewing.
On June 1, 2022, ''The Daily Wire'' released the
Matt Walsh documentary ''
What is a Woman?'', to ''Daily Wire'' subscribers. ''Terror on the Prairie'', a
western
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set in
Montana
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and starring
Gina Carano
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, was released to subscribers on June 14, 2022.
On June 29, 2022, ''The Daily Wire'' launched the
video on demand
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platform ''DailyWire+'' featuring various ''Daily Wire'' podcasts and video productions, content produced by
Jordan Peterson
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,
and announced an animated preschool series titled ''Chip Chilla'', which features the voice of comedian
Rob Schneider
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. On November 3, ''My Dinner with Trump'', a
cinéma vérité-style documentary featuring
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
with 16 of his closest advisors, released exclusively on the platform.
On November 17, 2022, ''The Daily Wire'' announced that it will produce adaptations of
Ayn Rand
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's 1957 novel ''
Atlas Shrugged
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'' and
Stephen R. Lawhead
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's series ''
The Pendragon Cycle
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''.
Films
Television series
Reception
Accuracy
According to
Snopes
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, "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,
a misdated, exaggerated story that protesters were digging up Confederate graves, a false allegation that Democratic congresspeople had refused to stand for a fallen
Navy SEAL
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's widow, and a report that
Harvard University
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was segregating
commencement ceremonies (because black students had planned an optional event). The credibility checker
NewsGuard
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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".
Various articles by ''The Daily Wire'' have engaged in
climate change denial
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by making false or misleading claims when they dispute the
scientific consensus
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Consensus is achieved through scholarly communication at confe ...
on
climate change
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.
In 2017, when scientists writing in
Climate Feedback
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described several ''Daily Wire'' articles as inaccurate or lacking evidence,
''The Daily Wire'' published corrections in two articles, after which the scientists assessed that the updated articles were still misleading.
In November 2021, a study by the
Center for Countering Digital Hate
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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.
The "Coronavirus Misinformation Weekly Briefing" by academics of the
Oxford Internet Institute
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described ''The Daily Wire''
's coverage of
COVID-19 lockdowns
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and the
World Health Organization
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as examples of "junk health news" narratives in 2020.
Some scientific studies have identified ''The Daily Wire'' as a
fake news website
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.
In April 2017, ''The Daily Wire'' incorrectly credited the
Housing and Urban Development
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secretary,
Ben Carson
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, with finding over $500 billion in accounting errors made by the Obama administration.
FactCheck.org
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reported that the errors were discovered and published by HUD's independent inspector general before Carson became secretary.
Facebook criticism
In October 2019, the investigative website ''
Popular Information
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Early life
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'' said that ''The Daily Wire'' had violated Facebook's policies by creating 14 anonymous pages promoting its content exclusively to boost engagement. 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.
In July 2021, an article by
NPR
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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 vaccine
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Prior to the COVID19 pandemic, an e ...
s that disproportionately played up potential side effects.
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".
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