In this episode, James Li exposes the artificial machinery propping up Ben Shapiro’s media empire at the Daily Wire. Li opens with a forensic analysis of “zombie” videos that accumulate millions of views with statistically impossible engagement ratios. He also gets into the alleged exploitation of YouTube ad loopholes designed to mask a massive subscriber exodus.
Ultimately, Li reveals how the self-proclaimed champions of the “free market” are relying on billionaire capital and algorithmic manipulation to manufacture the illusion of influence while organic independent media continues to rise. In other words, the Daily Wire has been hoisted by its own petard, and remains shipwrecked on rocky shores.
The Epstein files are not a hoax. They’re not partisan. They’re not going away.
Here’s how — and why — members of both parties are trying to distract you with some sensational partisan politics. Ian Carroll walks a fine line, delivering the straight skinny on the elite billionaire PDFs that hung around with Jeffrey Epstein.
In this episode of 51-49, James Li unravels the strange trail of Skyler Baird. He’s the “eyewitness” to the Charlie Kirk political assassination who helped detain the decoy George Zinn.
Baird later appeared at Charlie Kirk’s VIP funeral in Arizona and he joined a livestream from Australia to defend himself. His digital and family footprints suggest he may be more crisis actor than bystander. Here’s more on a new edition of 51-49 from James Li.
Speaking of George Zinn, what’s happened with him since that fateful day of September 10 2025? Has Zinn been arrested, seeing as how he rushed close to the stage, claiming he had killed Charlie Kirk, only to have been found to be a decoy? And if he was a decoy, who paid him to do so? He had told others he had been paid, yet we don’t know by whom.
How was he, in any way, in cahoots with the alleged assassin Tyler Robinson? It was said at the time that he had child porn (CSAM or Child Sexual Abuse Materials) on his phone. Does he face charges on those accounts? If so, who will be prosecuting? If not, what gives?
Were there any others conspiring with Tyler Robinson? What has the FBI, or any other federal agency, done to apprehend any of these figures? If they have not done a thing, why are they so slow and unresponsive?
Here, we learn from Black Scout Survival that George Zinn had been a political donor and endorsed the Utah gubernatorial campaign of Phil Lyman. Is Lyman involved or is he being smeared?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the imminent sale of TikTok’s US operations to a consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.
It’s said they will acquire majority stake in the business worth between $35 billion and $40 billion. Meanwhile, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in Beijing, China, would retain a share somewhere below the 20 percent threshold.
Who are these new players? Oracle is the company that already provides the cloud services for TikTok to store its data. The full name of Silver Lake is Silver Lake Technology Management LLC. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, it’s among the largest private equity firms. Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm, based in Nevada, formed by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
President Donald Trump will be bringing the deal up for negotiations with his Chinese counterpart — Xi Jinping. Here’s a reaction video from The Jimmy Dore Show, with Jimmy joined by James Li.
