The articles The Daily Wire publishes don't normally include falsehoods (with some exceptions), and the site said it is committed to 'truthful, accurate and ethical reporting.'īut as Settle explains, by only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda (such as negative reports about socialist countries and polarizing ones about race and sexuality issues) and only including certain facts, readers still come away from The Daily Wire's content with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation's greatest threats.Īn NPR review of stories on The Daily Wire about the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two months found numerous stories about potential side effects from COVID-19 vaccines, but none that portrayed the scientifically demonstrated efficacy of the vaccines or that focused explicitly on the hesitancy that has slowed the U.S. 'This has everything to do with the psychology of news consumers and the broader issues with polarization in American culture.' ''We're opinionated, we're noisy, and we're having a good time'' 'I'm depressed by it, but I'm not that surprised,' Settle said. That alone wouldn't be noteworthy the circle of life online means information is written and rewritten in a seemingly infinite loop. The site produces little original reporting but instead mostly repackages journalism from traditional news organizations with a conservative slant.

The Daily Wire did not respond to interview requests from NPR for this story. But the people who do this on the right have just found a lot more successful ways of doing it.' 'This happens on both the left and the right. 'There's a demand amongst certain subsets of the public for outrage politics,' said Jaime Settle, director of the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. This is a growing technology harnessed by hackers to either instal malware on your device or gain access through screen mirroring.Daily Wire articles with headlines such as 'BOOK REVIEW: Proof That Wokeness Is Projection By Nervous, Racist White Women Who Can't Talk To Minorities Without Elaborate Codes' regularly garner tens of thousands of shares for the site, and Shapiro is turning that Facebook reach into a rapidly expanding, cost-efficient media empire - one that experts worry may be furthering polarization in the United States. This incident arrives just over a week after the FBI issued a warning about juice jacking. This would be why the number texting Matt Walsh would have no contact associated. If someone were to hijack Walsh’s mobile phone sim, they would be able to access all of this data streaming into their phone. The text message received from an unsaved number has also been reported to belong to a Daily Wire employee, where Walsh is also a columnist. Screenshot of text messages sent to Matt Walsh show that someone was logging into a variety of internet accounts.

Walsh has yet to explain what led to the hack, but there are a number of clues that point to the SIM takeover being the cause. There are reports that the account was accessed through a SIM hijack. Matt Walsh assumed to be hacked in SIM takeoverīen Shapiro, Matt Walsh’s friend, confirmed that Walsh’s account was indeed hacked. The posts have since been deleted, but the Twitter image and banner remain on Matt Walsh’s official account.

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