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The Daily Wire’s Phony Facade

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.

 

Late Stage YouTube

YouTube has changed drastically in 2025, and not for the better, according to a lot of content creators.

Dropping views, plummeting ad rates, nonsensical channel bans and AI moderation running amuck have been just the beginning of what is looking like the END of the YouTube we’ve all come to know these past 20 years. Here’s more from Clownfish TV.

Trump’s Revenge On Media

When Donald Trump came on the scene in 2015, the mainstream media viewed it as a way to revitalize themselves. When he left the presidency in 2021, the media’s readership and viewership nosedived by nearly 50 percent.

Add to that Trump’s plan to debut his new social media platform in early 2022, and it looks like curtains for the media. Seems they can’t live with the Trumpster and they definitely can’t survive without him. Think a well-planned spoonful of revenge! Here’s more from Liberal Hivemind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMUzvBAc4c

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