Many Daily Wire stories repackage journalism from traditional news organizations while adding a conservative slant.[4][7]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.[8][9][10]
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.[11] After the duo secured several million dollars in seed funding from billionaire petroleum industry brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, The Daily Wire was launched in 2015.[11][12][9] Farris manages DailyWire Ventures, LLC (formerly Forward Publishing, LLC, and later Bentkey Ventures, LLC), which publishes The Daily Wire.[9] Initially, the company was headquartered in Los Angeles, California[13] and supported mostly by advertisements.[1] In September 2020, Shapiro announced that The Daily Wire headquarters would move to Nashville, Tennessee.[14][15][16]
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.[17] 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.[18] 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.[19]
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.[20] Its first original movie, Shut In, premiered in 2022.[21]
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.[22] The company later filed a lawsuit, and the issue was eventually brought before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared the mandates unlawful with a 6-3 ruling.[23]
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.[24]
The Daily Wire's annual revenues exceeded $100 million for the first time as of early 2022, and it had 150 employees.[25] 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.[26][27] In June 2022, The Daily Wire launched DailyWire+, a video on demand platform featuring various Daily Wire content, including podcasts and video productions.[28] In June 2022, co-founder Jeremy Boreing said The Daily Wire had 890,000 paid subscribers.[29] In November 2022, Boreing stated that they have surpassed 1,000,000 subscribers.[30]
In January 2023, conservative commentator Steven Crowder revealed on his Youtube channel that he had received a term sheet from an unnamed conservative media company (later revealed to be The Daily Wire) that included a provision that, if he were to be demonetized or removed from platforms such as YouTube, Facebook or the iTunes Store, his salary would be cut substantially during that period. Crowder took immense issue with that provision, saying that it enforces policies that disproportionately target conservatives and claiming "Big Tech is in bed with Big Con."[31] CEO Jeremy Boreing later responded to Crowder's video, claiming that Crowder had misrepresented the terms of the contract and that the contract would have paid Crowder $50 million over four years. Furthermore, Boreing asserted that the stipulation was necessary to ensure profitability.[32] Other Daily Wire pundits such as Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Candace Owens also criticized Crowder for his actions, including secretly recording a phone call he had with Boreing and only releasing parts of the call selectively, including a quote from Boreing saying that up-and-coming conservative commentators need to be "wage slaves for a little bit" while they build their brand.[33][34]
The reach of The Ben Shapiro Show expanded in April 2018 when Westwood One began syndicating the podcast to radio.[37] 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.[38]As of March2019[update], according to Westwood One, The Ben Shapiro Show is being carried by more than 200 stations, including in nine of the top ten markets.[39]
In 2020, The Daily Wire acquired the entirety of PragerU's content.[40]
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.[41] It premiered March 19, 2021. Its episodes air weekly and are filmed before a live studio audience.[42] Notable guests include former president Donald Trump, UFC president Dana White, and U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan.[citation needed]
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.[43] 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".[44] Williams returned to sideline reporting with Fox Sports in August 2022.[45] In February 2022 the Daily Wire started a sports show called Crain & Company.
In March 2022, they started a YouTube channel called The Comments Section with Brett Cooper. Following Cooper's departure from the company in December 2024, the show's producer, Reagan Rohrbach, who began filling in for Cooper when she was unavailable, will take over as The Comments Section's new host some time within the new year. [citation needed]
The Daily Wire has created several documentaries, including the Matt Walsh documentaries What Is a Woman?, released on June 1, 2022[46] and Am I Racist?, released on September 13, 2024. Convicting a Murderer is a 2023 American true-crime documentary series narrated and hosted by Candace Owens for The Daily Wire. Two other documentaries are the Candace Owens helm project The Greatest Lie Ever Sold and the Dr. Jordan Peterson project Logos and Literacy.
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Daily Wire personalities Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boreing have performed a couple songs together, as a band with the name Smokey Mike & The god-king.[47]
In January 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.[48] In November, The Daily Wire launched Adam Carolla Truth Yeller, a comedy podcast filmed with a live audience, featuring comedian Adam Carolla.[49][third-party source needed]
On February 10, 2022 The Daily Wire's first original film, Shut In, premiered on YouTube. It was directed by D.J. Caruso and starred Rainey Qualley, Josh Horowitz, and Vincent Gallo in his first film since 2013.[21] After acquiring domestic rights to The Hyperions, a superhero comedy starring Cary Elwes, 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.[50][51]
On June 29, 2022, The Daily Wire launched the video on demand platform DailyWire+ featuring various Daily Wire podcasts and video productions,[28] and announced an animated preschool series titled Chip Chilla, which featured the voice of comedian Rob Schneider.[53] On November 3, My Dinner with Trump, a cinéma vérité-style documentary featuring Donald Trump with 16 of his closest advisors, released exclusively on the platform.[54]
In November 2022, The Daily Wire announced that it will produce adaptations of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged and Stephen R. Lawhead's series The Pendragon Cycle.[55][56]The Pendragon Cycle began filming in September 2023, and is planned for release in 2024. The seven-episode series will be co-directed by Jeremy Boreing and will star Tom Sharp and the conservative YouTuber Brett Cooper.[57] On October 16, 2023 – the centennial anniversary of Walt Disney founding his company – Boreing announced a kids' content service called Bentkey, which launched that day. The service features some of the kids' content they had announced the prior year, including Chip Chilla.[58] Bentkey's first feature-length film was announced to be a live-action adaptation of Snow White, titled Snow White and the Evil Queen, starring Cooper as the titular character, in response to the upcoming 2025 Disney Snow White film.[59]
In March 2022, co-CEO Jeremy Boreing opened a line of subscription-based shaving razors called Jeremy's Razors, openly competing against former Daily Wire sponsor Harry's Razors.[63][64] In March 2023, Boreing started selling chocolate bars branded as Jeremy's Chocolate after Hershey's chocolate bars hired a trans woman to be a spokesperson for International Women's Day.[65]
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.[8][9][10] 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,[10] a misdated, exaggerated story that protesters were digging up Confederate graves,[66] a false allegation that Democratic congresspeople had refused to stand for a fallen Navy SEAL's widow,[67] and a report that Harvard University was segregating commencement ceremonies (because black students had planned an optional event).[68] 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".[8][bettersourceneeded]
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.[69][70][71][72][9] In 2017, when scientists writing in Climate Feedback described several Daily Wire articles as inaccurate or lacking evidence,[69][70][71] The Daily Wire published corrections in two articles, after which the scientists assessed that the updated articles were still misleading.[73][74] 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.[75][76]
In April 2017, The Daily Wire incorrectly credited the Housing and Urban Development secretary, Ben Carson, with finding over $500billion 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.[85]
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↑ Gregory, John (December 2020). "dailywire.com"(PDF). NewsGuard. Archived(PDF) from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2021. 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.
1 2 3 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.
1 2 3 4 5 Gregory, John (2020). "dailywire.com"(PDF). NewsGuard. Archived(PDF) from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrieved July 26, 2021. An October 2019 article headlined "KNOWLES: AOC Travels To Europe To Cry," made false claims about climate change.
1 2 Johnson, Scott (May 9, 2017). "The Daily Wire makes wild claims about climate change based on no evidence". Climate Feedback. Archived from the original on April 30, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018. 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.
1 2 Vincent, Emmanuel (February 28, 2017). "Analysis of 'Scientists: Here's What Really Causes Climate Change (And It Has Nothing To Do With Human Beings)'". Climate Feedback. Archived from the original on April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018. 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.
↑ Porterfield, Carlie (November 2, 2021). "Breitbart Leads Climate Change Misinformation On Facebook, Study Says". Forbes. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2021. 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.
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