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The Daily Caller

October 21, 2023

The Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.[7] It was founded by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political pundit Neil Patel in 2010. Launched as a "conservative answer to The Huffington Post", The Daily Caller quadrupled its audience and became profitable by 2012, surpassing several rival websites by 2013. In 2020, the site was described by The New York Times as having been "a pioneer in online conservative journalism".[8] The Daily Caller is a member of the White House press pool.[9]

The Daily Caller
Type of site
News, opinion
Available inEnglish
FoundedJanuary 11, 2010 (2010-01-11)
Headquarters1920 L Street NW Floor 2, Washington, D.C. 20036
OwnerThe Daily Caller, Inc.
Founder(s)Tucker Carlson
Neil Patel[1][2]
Key people
  • Neil Patel
    (Publisher)
  • Geoff Ingersoll
    (Editor-in-Chief)
  • Eric Lieberman
    (Managing Editor)
  • Timothy Nerozzi
    (Breaking News Editor)
URLdailycaller.com
AdvertisingNative
RegistrationOptional, required to comment
LaunchedJanuary 11, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-01-11)
Current statusOnline

The Daily Caller has published false stories on multiple occasions, and declined to correct them when they were shown to be untrue.[16] The website has published false and misleading articles that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change. In 2017 and 2018, the website cut ties with an editor and two contributors linked to white supremacist causes.[17][18] The website has responded to challenges to its stories in various ways, in some cases defending their claims, and in others expressing regret for story headlines or content;[19] and on at least one occasion, when pointed out by other news outlets, the website has repudiated a past article writer due to support of extremist views.

In June 2020, Carlson left the site, with Patel buying out Carlson's stake to become majority owner.[20][8] Foster Friess, a major conservative donor also known for being an investment manager, remained a partial owner until his death in 2021.[21][8]

History Edit

The Daily Caller was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel. After raising $3 million in funding from businessman Foster Friess, the website was launched on January 11, 2010. The organization began with a reporting staff of 21 in its Washington office. It was launched as a "conservative answer to The Huffington Post", similarly featuring sections in broad range of subjects beyond politics. When The Daily Caller launched in 2010, it became the third Washington DC based news site besides Talking Points Memo and Politico.[22]

In a 2010 interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Tucker Carlson described The Daily Caller's prospective audience as "[p]eople who are distrustful of conventional news organizations". Carlson said "the coverage of the Tea Party blows me away by its stupidity. The assumption of almost everyone I know who covers politics for the networks or daily newspapers is: they're all birthers, they're all crazy, they're upset about fluoride in the water, probably racist. And those assumptions have prevented good journalism from taking place".[23]

By late 2012, the site had quadrupled its page view and total audience and had become profitable without ever buying an advertisement for itself.[24]

Vince Coglianese replaced Carlson as editor-in-chief in 2016 when the Tucker Carlson Tonight show began on Fox.[25] Carlson departed the site in June 2020 to increase his focus on his new show.[26] Patel brought in Omeed Malik as a new partner; a former hedge fund managing director and Muslim American Democrat, he was a donor to Donald Trump.[27] The Daily Caller became a minority-owned and -run company thereafter.[28] Friess remained a partial owner until his death in 2021.[21][8]

In 2020, The New York Times noted that "several former Daily Caller reporters occupy prominent roles in Washington journalism", specifically noting CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins and Daily Mail reporter David Martosko.[8]

Political stances Edit

When it first launched in January 2010, Mercedes Bunz, writing for The Guardian, said The Daily Caller was "setting itself up to be the conservative answer to The Huffington Post". According to Bunz, a year before the website launched, Carlson promoted it as "a new political website leaning more to the right than Politico and TalkingPointsMemo". However, at launch, he wrote a letter to readers that said it was not going to be a right-wing site.[29] "We're not going to suck up to people in power, the way so many have", Carlson said.[30] During a January 2010 interview with Politico, Carlson said The Daily Caller was not going to be tied to his personal political ideologies and that he wanted it to be "breaking stories of importance".[31] In a Washington Post article about The Daily Caller's launch, Howard Kurtz wrote, "[Carlson's] partner is Neil Patel, a former Dick Cheney aide. His opinion editor is Moira Bagley, who spent 2008 as the Republican National Committee's press secretary. And his $3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess, a big-time GOP donor. But Carlson insists this won't be a right-wing site". Kurtz quoted Carlson as saying, "We're not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone".[32] In an interview with The New York Times, Carlson said that the vast majority of traditional reporting comes from a liberal point of view and called The Daily Caller's reporting "the balance against the rest of the conventional press".[24] In a 2012 Washingtonian article, Tom Bartlett said Carlson and Patel developed The Daily Caller as "a conservative news site in the mold of the liberal Huffington Post but with more firearms coverage and fewer nipple-slip slide shows".[33]

In 2019, the Columbia Journalism Review described The Daily Caller as "right wing",[34] a description also used by Business Insider,[35] Snopes,[36] and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[37] The Guardian in April 2019 said The Daily Caller was known for pro-Trump content.[38] In 2020, Austrian social scientist Christian Fuchs of the University of Westminster described The Daily Caller as alt-right.[39] A 2021 Politico article described The Daily Caller as "mainstream right", as opposed to more "conspiratorial fringe" outlets such as One America News Network.[40]

Climate change Edit

The Daily Caller has published articles that dispute the scientific consensus on climate change. According to Science magazine, The Daily Caller's "climate reporting focuses on doubt and highlights data that suggests climate concerns from the world's leading science agencies and organizations are incorrect".[41] In 2011, the Daily Caller published a false story claiming that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was going to spend $21 billion per year to hire 230,000 staff to regulate greenhouse gas emissions; at the time, the EPA had 17,000 staff and a total budget of $8.7 billion.[42][43][44][45] The story went viral in right-wing media,[42] and Republican politicians repeated the story.[44] Other news outlets noted that the story was false, but The Daily Caller stood by the story.[42] Adweek reported that the decision of David Martosko, executive editor at The Daily Caller, to stand by the story caused dismay among some the website's staff, who believed the decision undermined the credibility of the outlet.[46]

In 2017, The Daily Caller published a story falsely claiming that a "peer-reviewed study" by "two scientists and a veteran statistician" found that recent years have not been the warmest ever.[47] The alleged "study" was a PDF file on a WordPress blog, and was neither peer-reviewed nor published in a scientific journal.[47] Also in 2017, The Daily Caller uncritically published a bogus Daily Mail story which claimed that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) manipulated data to make climate change appear worse; at the same time, legitimate news outlets debunked the Daily Mail story,[48][49] as did Media Matters.[50] Also in 2017, The Daily Caller published a story claiming that a study found no evidence of accelerating temperatures over a 23-year period, which climate scientists described as a misleading story.[51] In 2016, The Daily Caller published a story claiming that climate scientist Michael Mann (director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University) had asserted that data are unnecessary to measure climate change; Mann described the story as "egregiously false".[52] In 2015, The Daily Caller wrote that NOAA "fiddle[d]" with data when the agency published a report concluding that there was no global warming hiatus.[53][54]

In 2018, President Trump dismissed a National Climate Assessment report by the EPA about the impact of climate change in the United States, citing a Daily Caller story that the Obama Administration had pushed the authors of the report to focus on the worst-case scenario. FactCheck.org found no evidence for the claims made in The Daily Caller's story, and that the EPA report focused both on lower and higher scenarios and largely looked at climate change impacts that had already occurred. FactCheck.org noted that the report underwent multiple reviews, both internally and externally, and that the report was available for public review for a period of three months. The Daily Caller cited as evidence for its claims a memo that allegedly showed that the Obama administration pushed the authors of the report to include worst-case scenarios; FactCheck.org noted the memo "does not show that the Obama administration pushed for certain scenarios".[55]

Journalistic standards Edit

Fact-checkers have frequently debunked Daily Caller stories.[38] According to the 2018 book, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics, written by Harvard University scholars Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts, The Daily Caller fails to follow journalistic norms in its reporting.[3]: 14  According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, The Daily Caller "descended into extremism and sensationalism, publishing unsupported and frequently vulgar attacks on Democratic leaders, false criticisms of liberal causes, and popular conspiracy theories. The site also became known for its promotion of racist and sexist stereotypes".[56]

Some scientific studies have identified The Daily Caller as a fake news website.[57][58][59] In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, The Daily Caller was ranked the least-trusted news organization by Americans, underneath Breitbart News, the Daily Kos, the Palmer Report, Occupy Democrats and InfoWars.[60]

In 2019, The Daily Caller, along with One America News Network and The Gateway Pundit, were categorized as unreliable sources of information by the Wikipedia community,[61] with the consensus being that The Daily Caller "publishes false or fabricated information".[62]

Specific incidents Edit

In 2011, The Daily Caller was the first news outlet to disseminate a Project Veritas video by conservative provocateur James O'Keefe which purportedly showed an NPR fundraiser deriding Republicans. The video was later proven to have been misleadingly edited.[10] In February 2012, The Daily Caller was criticized for an "investigative series" of articles co-authored by Carlson, purporting to be an insiders' exposé of Media Matters for America (MMfA), a liberal watchdog group that monitors and scrutinizes conservative media outlets, and its founder David Brock.[63] Citing "current and former" MMfA employees, "friends" of Brock's and a "prominent liberal", the article characterized MMfA as having "an atmosphere of tension and paranoia" and portrayed Brock as "erratic, unstable and disturbing", who "struggles with mental illness", in fear of "right-wing assassins", a regular cocaine user and would "close [local bars] and party till six in the morning". Reuters media critic and libertarian Jack Shafer criticized The Daily Caller piece as "anonymously sourced crap", adding "Daily Caller is attacking Media Matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda". Shafer said that he had "never thought much of Media Matters' style of watchdogging or Brock's journalism".[64]

In August 2018, The Daily Caller ran a story alleging that a Chinese-owned company had hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and successfully obtained nearly all of her emails, citing only, "two sources briefed on the matter". President Trump retweeted the allegations made in The Daily Caller's unsubstantiated reporting. The FBI stated that there was no evidence to support the story.[65][66] In January 2019, The Daily Caller published a story with the misleading headline, "Here's The Photo Some Described as a Nude Selfie of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez". The photo was not of Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, and Ocasio-Cortez condemned The Daily Caller's action as "completely disgusting behavior".[15] The Daily Caller apologized for the headline and changed it.[19] The Daily Caller said that the content of the story was not unlike stories published by Vice and The Huffington Post.[67] Vice had in fact published an article debunking the claim that the photo was of Ocasio-Cortez.[68]

Debunked prostitution allegations regarding Bob Menendez Edit

In November 2012, The Daily Caller posted interviews with two women claiming that New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez had paid them for sex while he was a guest of a campaign donor.[69] The allegation came five days before the 2012 United States Senate election in New Jersey. News organizations such as ABC News, which had also interviewed the women, The New York Times, and the New York Post declined to publish the allegations, viewing them as unsubstantiated and lacking credibility.[70][71][11] Subsequently, one of the women who accused Menendez stated that she had been paid to falsely implicate the senator and had never met him.[70][72] Menendez's office described the allegations as "manufactured" by a right-wing blog as a politically motivated smear.[12]

A few weeks later, police in the Dominican Republic announced that three women had claimed they were paid $300–425 each to lie about having had sex with Menendez,[73] and alleged that the women had been paid to lie about Menendez by an individual claiming to work for The Daily Caller. The website denied this allegation, stating: "At no point did any money change hands between The Daily Caller and any sources or individuals connected with this investigation".[74] Describing what it saw as the unraveling of The Daily Caller' "scoop", the Poynter Institute wrote: "The Daily Caller stands by its reports, though apparently doesn't feel the need to prove its allegations right".[75]

Debunked conspiracy theories about Imran Awan Edit

In February 2017 Politico and BuzzFeed reported Capitol Police accused five IT staffers for Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives of trying to steal House computer equipment and violating House security policies.[76][77][78] Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was one of several House members who did not terminate the suspected staffers after the criminal complaints.[79] In July 2017, one of the accused staffers, Imran Awan, was arrested for making a false statement on a bank loan application.[80][81] After his arrest, Wasserman Schultz's office fired Awan.[82]

The Daily Caller pushed conspiracy theories about Awan,[83][84] seeking to tie Awan to many alleged criminal activities, including unauthorized access to government servers.[85] The reporter behind the coverage of Awan told Fox News that the affair was "straight out of James Bond".[85] An 18-month investigation by federal prosecutors found no evidence of wrongdoing in Awan's work in the House and no support for the conspiracy theories about Awan. In the announcement of the conclusion of the investigation, investigators rebuked a litany of right-wing conspiracy theories about Awan.[83][84]

Controversies Edit

The Daily Caller has been involved in several controversial incidents. In March 2015, The Daily Caller columnist Mickey Kaus quit after editor Tucker Carlson refused to run a column critical of Fox News coverage of the immigration policy debate.[86] Carlson, who worked for Fox News at the time, reportedly did not want The Daily Caller publishing criticism of a firm that employed him.[87]

In January 2017, The Daily Caller posted a video which encouraged violence against protesters.[88][89][90][91] The footage showed a car driving into demonstrators, with the headline "Here's A Reel of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying to Block the Road". The video clip was set to a cover of the Ludacris song "Move Bitch".[88] The video clip drew attention in August 2017 after a white supremacist murdered one counter-protestor and injured 35 more by intentionally driving a car into them at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[88] After the video attracted attention, The Daily Caller deleted it from its website.[88][91]

In 2018, The Daily Caller was the first news outlet to report on Stefan Halper, a confidential FBI source, and his interactions with Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about campaign matters.[92] Page became the subject of surveillance warrants issued by the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court regarding contacts with Russian intelligence officials.[93] Other news outlets confirmed Halper's identity but did not report his identity because US intelligence officials warned that it would endanger him and his contacts.[94][95][96]

In 2020, during The Daily Caller''s coverage of protests in Louisville, Kentucky related to the shooting of Breonna Taylor and subsequent verdict on the police involved, two of their reporters were arrested and held overnight. Co-founder Patel threatened to take legal action against the Louisville Metro Police Department, citing freedom of the press.[97][98]

2016 presidential election conspiracy theories Edit

 
Daily Caller journalist Stephanie Hamill interviewing Republican Congressman Andy Biggs in 2020.

According to a study by Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, The Daily Caller was among the most popular right-wing news sites during the 2016 United States presidential election. The study found that The Daily Caller provided "amplification and legitimation" for "the most extreme conspiracy sites", such as Truthfeed, InfoWars, The Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse.[99][100][101] The Daily Caller also "employed anti-immigrant narratives that echoed sentiments from the alt-right and white nationalists but without the explicitly racist and pro-segregation language".[100]

In one of its most frequently shared stories, The Daily Caller falsely asserted that Morocco's King Mohammed VI flew Bill Clinton on a private jet, and that this had been omitted from the Clinton Foundation's tax disclosures.[100] The Daily Caller also made the "utterly unsubstantiated and unsourced claim" that Hillary Clinton instructed Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson "to try to shut down Mosaic Fertilizer, described as America's largest phosphate mining company, in exchange for a $15 million donation to the Clinton Foundation from King Mohammed VI of Morocco, ostensibly to benefit Morocco's state-owned phosphate company".[100]

2017 allegation of non-profit abuse Edit

According to Callum Borchers of The Washington Post, The Daily Caller has "a peculiar business structure that enables it to increase revenue while reducing its tax obligation".[102] The organization, a for-profit company, does this by relying on its charity arm, The Daily Caller News Foundation, to create the majority of its news content.[103]

Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy argues, "It's a huge rip-off for taxpayers if The Daily Caller News Foundation is receiving revenue that it doesn't pay taxes on, to produce stories that are used by the for-profit enterprise, which then makes money on the stories through ads". Benjamin M. Leff of American University writes, "But the fact that it also provides its content to other publishers for free is evidence that it is not operated for the private benefit of the for-profit, even if the for-profit is the dominant user of its content".[104]

Ties to white supremacists in 2017–2018 Edit

Scott Greer was deputy editor and contributor at The Daily Caller. After his departure in June 2018, it was revealed that he published articles espousing white nationalist, racist anti-black and antisemitic views under a pseudonym in white supremacist publications.[17] In September 2018, The Atlantic reported that Greer between 2014[18] and 2018, had written pieces under a pseudonym "Michael McGregor" in the white supremacist publication Radix Journal from 2014 to 2015. In articles for Radix Journal, Greer expressed white nationalist views, as well as racist anti-black and antisemitic views. In his emails and messages, he exchanged anti-Christian and antisemitic comments, with colleagues including Richard Spencer.[17] After being confronted with his past white supremacist writings, Greer resigned from any affiliation with The Daily Caller.[17] In 2017 it was revealed that Greer had ties to members of the white nationalist movement, including friendships with Devin Saucier, assistant to Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and anti-immigrant activist Marcus Epstein of VDARE, who had pled guilty to assaulting an African American woman two years prior to the beginning of his relationship with Greer.[105] Greer had later deleted parts of his Facebook page, but is seen photographed with white nationalists such as Spencer, Tim Dionisopoulos, the Wolves of Vinland, and also appears wearing clothes belonging to the group Youth for Western Civilization.[106][105] The Daily Caller subsequently stated about why he had not been fired in 2017: "We had two choices: Fire a young man because of some photos taken of him at metal shows in college, or take his word. We chose to trust him. Now, if what you allege is accurate, we know that trust was a mistake, we know he lied to us. We won't publish him, anyone in these circles, or anyone who thinks like them. People who associate with these losers have no business writing for our company".[17]

Prior to June 2017,[107][18] The Daily Caller had published freelance articles by Jason Kessler,[105] a white supremacist who organized the Unite the Right rally in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.[108][109][36] That rally took place while Kessler was suspended from The Daily Caller, after ProPublica had found that an article he had written for The Daily Caller about a previous torchlight rally in Charlottesville in May 2017 had not disclosed that he made a speech at the event praising fascist and racist groups.[110][36] After the suspension, Daily Caller executive editor Paul Conner defended Kessler's article as accurate.[110][111] The Daily Caller deleted all of Kessler's articles from its website in August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally, which he had organized with Spencer and others, turned into deadly violence.[36]

Until 2017,[18] the website had also published pieces by Peter Brimelow, founder of the white supremacist website VDARE,[105][112] and by David Hilton, an anti-Semite who has pushed conspiracy theories that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks. In his articles for The Daily Caller, Hilton promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros, as well as conspiracy theories about "Cultural Marxism".[18]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported in 2017 that The Daily Caller had a "white nationalist problem", citing contributions by Kessler, Brimelow, Greer, and Ilana Mercer, whose writing on supposed racially motivated crime in South Africa was also published on the white nationalist website American Renaissance the same day it appeared in The Daily Caller.[106] The SPLC retracted a claim about a Daily Caller reporter, Richard Pollock, stating that except for speaking at a 2017 event of the H.L. Mencken Club, considered a white nationalist group, "there is no evidence to suggest Mr. Pollock is otherwise a white nationalist";[106] in 2018, according to the SPLC, Pollock cancelled his scheduled attendance at the same group's event.[113]

Staff, contributors and organization Edit

 
Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson

The Daily Caller is in the White House rotating press pool and has full-time reporters on Capitol Hill.[114]

Contributors to The Daily Caller have included economist Larry Kudlow, Congressman Mark Sanford, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former US Senate Candidate and Judge Jeanine Pirro, sculptor Robert Mihaly, diplomat Alan Keyes, political commentator Ann Coulter, and the NRA-ILA.[122] Content has also been contributed to the site by Lanny Davis, a former special counsel under Bill Clinton, and by political blogger Mickey Kaus,[1] who quit in 2015.[86]

The Daily Caller hosts The Mirror, a blog written by former FishbowlDC editor and The Hill columnist Betsy Rothstein. The Mirror covers media in Washington D.C., news related to journalism organizations, as well as political and media related gossip. The tagline is, "Reflections of a self-obsessed city".[123][124]

Billionaire and businessman Charles Koch has made charitable donations to the Daily Caller News Foundation.[125]

Check Your Fact subsidiary website Edit

In 2017, The Daily Caller launched a for-profit subsidiary fact-checking website called Check Your Fact. In 2018, the site was approved by Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to become a fact-checking partner of Facebook in 2019.[38][126][127] The website is editorially independent of The Daily Caller and has its own staff.[41]

Awards Edit

  • 2012 The Daily Caller won one of 99 Edward R. Murrow Awards issued by the Radio Television Digital News Association that year, for "Horse Soldiers of 9-11" a documentary by Alex Quade about the first US special forces troops who went into Afghanistan in 2001 on horseback.[128]
  • 2012 American Legion Fourth Estate Award for "The Horse Soldiers of 9-11" by Alex Quade[129]
  • 2012 Telly Award for "The Horse Soldiers of 9-11" by Alex Quade[130]

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daily, caller, right, wing, news, opinion, website, based, washington, founded, former, news, host, tucker, carlson, political, pundit, neil, patel, 2010, launched, conservative, answer, huffington, post, quadrupled, audience, became, profitable, 2012, surpass. The Daily Caller is a right wing news and opinion website based in Washington D C 7 It was founded by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political pundit Neil Patel in 2010 Launched as a conservative answer to The Huffington Post The Daily Caller quadrupled its audience and became profitable by 2012 surpassing several rival websites by 2013 In 2020 the site was described by The New York Times as having been a pioneer in online conservative journalism 8 The Daily Caller is a member of the White House press pool 9 The Daily CallerType of siteNews opinionAvailable inEnglishFoundedJanuary 11 2010 2010 01 11 Headquarters1920 L Street NW Floor 2 Washington D C 20036OwnerThe Daily Caller Inc Founder s Tucker CarlsonNeil Patel 1 2 Key peopleNeil Patel Publisher Geoff Ingersoll Editor in Chief Eric Lieberman Managing Editor Timothy Nerozzi Breaking News Editor URLdailycaller wbr comAdvertisingNativeRegistrationOptional required to commentLaunchedJanuary 11 2010 13 years ago 2010 01 11 Current statusOnlineThe Daily Caller has published false stories on multiple occasions and declined to correct them when they were shown to be untrue 16 The website has published false and misleading articles that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change In 2017 and 2018 the website cut ties with an editor and two contributors linked to white supremacist causes 17 18 The website has responded to challenges to its stories in various ways in some cases defending their claims and in others expressing regret for story headlines or content 19 and on at least one occasion when pointed out by other news outlets the website has repudiated a past article writer due to support of extremist views In June 2020 Carlson left the site with Patel buying out Carlson s stake to become majority owner 20 8 Foster Friess a major conservative donor also known for being an investment manager remained a partial owner until his death in 2021 21 8 Contents 1 History 2 Political stances 2 1 Climate change 3 Journalistic standards 3 1 Specific incidents 3 1 1 Debunked prostitution allegations regarding Bob Menendez 3 1 2 Debunked conspiracy theories about Imran Awan 4 Controversies 4 1 2016 presidential election conspiracy theories 4 2 2017 allegation of non profit abuse 4 3 Ties to white supremacists in 2017 2018 5 Staff contributors and organization 6 Check Your Fact subsidiary website 7 Awards 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditThe Daily Caller was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel After raising 3 million in funding from businessman Foster Friess the website was launched on January 11 2010 The organization began with a reporting staff of 21 in its Washington office It was launched as a conservative answer to The Huffington Post similarly featuring sections in broad range of subjects beyond politics When The Daily Caller launched in 2010 it became the third Washington DC based news site besides Talking Points Memo and Politico 22 In a 2010 interview with the Columbia Journalism Review Tucker Carlson described The Daily Caller s prospective audience as p eople who are distrustful of conventional news organizations Carlson said the coverage of the Tea Party blows me away by its stupidity The assumption of almost everyone I know who covers politics for the networks or daily newspapers is they re all birthers they re all crazy they re upset about fluoride in the water probably racist And those assumptions have prevented good journalism from taking place 23 By late 2012 the site had quadrupled its page view and total audience and had become profitable without ever buying an advertisement for itself 24 Vince Coglianese replaced Carlson as editor in chief in 2016 when the Tucker Carlson Tonight show began on Fox 25 Carlson departed the site in June 2020 to increase his focus on his new show 26 Patel brought in Omeed Malik as a new partner a former hedge fund managing director and Muslim American Democrat he was a donor to Donald Trump 27 The Daily Caller became a minority owned and run company thereafter 28 Friess remained a partial owner until his death in 2021 21 8 In 2020 The New York Times noted that several former Daily Caller reporters occupy prominent roles in Washington journalism specifically noting CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins and Daily Mail reporter David Martosko 8 Political stances EditWhen it first launched in January 2010 Mercedes Bunz writing for The Guardian said The Daily Caller was setting itself up to be the conservative answer to The Huffington Post According to Bunz a year before the website launched Carlson promoted it as a new political website leaning more to the right than Politico and TalkingPointsMemo However at launch he wrote a letter to readers that said it was not going to be a right wing site 29 We re not going to suck up to people in power the way so many have Carlson said 30 During a January 2010 interview with Politico Carlson said The Daily Caller was not going to be tied to his personal political ideologies and that he wanted it to be breaking stories of importance 31 In a Washington Post article about The Daily Caller s launch Howard Kurtz wrote Carlson s partner is Neil Patel a former Dick Cheney aide His opinion editor is Moira Bagley who spent 2008 as the Republican National Committee s press secretary And his 3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess a big time GOP donor But Carlson insists this won t be a right wing site Kurtz quoted Carlson as saying We re not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone 32 In an interview with The New York Times Carlson said that the vast majority of traditional reporting comes from a liberal point of view and called The Daily Caller s reporting the balance against the rest of the conventional press 24 In a 2012 Washingtonian article Tom Bartlett said Carlson and Patel developed The Daily Caller as a conservative news site in the mold of the liberal Huffington Post but with more firearms coverage and fewer nipple slip slide shows 33 In 2019 the Columbia Journalism Review described The Daily Caller as right wing 34 a description also used by Business Insider 35 Snopes 36 and Harvard University s Berkman Klein Center for Internet amp Society 37 The Guardian in April 2019 said The Daily Caller was known for pro Trump content 38 In 2020 Austrian social scientist Christian Fuchs of the University of Westminster described The Daily Caller as alt right 39 A 2021 Politico article described The Daily Caller as mainstream right as opposed to more conspiratorial fringe outlets such as One America News Network 40 Climate change Edit The Daily Caller has published articles that dispute the scientific consensus on climate change According to Science magazine The Daily Caller s climate reporting focuses on doubt and highlights data that suggests climate concerns from the world s leading science agencies and organizations are incorrect 41 In 2011 the Daily Caller published a false story claiming that the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA was going to spend 21 billion per year to hire 230 000 staff to regulate greenhouse gas emissions at the time the EPA had 17 000 staff and a total budget of 8 7 billion 42 43 44 45 The story went viral in right wing media 42 and Republican politicians repeated the story 44 Other news outlets noted that the story was false but The Daily Caller stood by the story 42 Adweek reported that the decision of David Martosko executive editor at The Daily Caller to stand by the story caused dismay among some the website s staff who believed the decision undermined the credibility of the outlet 46 In 2017 The Daily Caller published a story falsely claiming that a peer reviewed study by two scientists and a veteran statistician found that recent years have not been the warmest ever 47 The alleged study was a PDF file on a WordPress blog and was neither peer reviewed nor published in a scientific journal 47 Also in 2017 The Daily Caller uncritically published a bogus Daily Mail story which claimed that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA manipulated data to make climate change appear worse at the same time legitimate news outlets debunked the Daily Mail story 48 49 as did Media Matters 50 Also in 2017 The Daily Caller published a story claiming that a study found no evidence of accelerating temperatures over a 23 year period which climate scientists described as a misleading story 51 In 2016 The Daily Caller published a story claiming that climate scientist Michael Mann director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University had asserted that data are unnecessary to measure climate change Mann described the story as egregiously false 52 In 2015 The Daily Caller wrote that NOAA fiddle d with data when the agency published a report concluding that there was no global warming hiatus 53 54 In 2018 President Trump dismissed a National Climate Assessment report by the EPA about the impact of climate change in the United States citing a Daily Caller story that the Obama Administration had pushed the authors of the report to focus on the worst case scenario FactCheck org found no evidence for the claims made in The Daily Caller s story and that the EPA report focused both on lower and higher scenarios and largely looked at climate change impacts that had already occurred FactCheck org noted that the report underwent multiple reviews both internally and externally and that the report was available for public review for a period of three months The Daily Caller cited as evidence for its claims a memo that allegedly showed that the Obama administration pushed the authors of the report to include worst case scenarios FactCheck org noted the memo does not show that the Obama administration pushed for certain scenarios 55 Journalistic standards EditFact checkers have frequently debunked Daily Caller stories 38 According to the 2018 book Network Propaganda Manipulation Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics written by Harvard University scholars Yochai Benkler Robert Faris and Hal Roberts The Daily Caller fails to follow journalistic norms in its reporting 3 14 According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica The Daily Caller descended into extremism and sensationalism publishing unsupported and frequently vulgar attacks on Democratic leaders false criticisms of liberal causes and popular conspiracy theories The site also became known for its promotion of racist and sexist stereotypes 56 Some scientific studies have identified The Daily Caller as a fake news website 57 58 59 In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations The Daily Caller was ranked the least trusted news organization by Americans underneath Breitbart News the Daily Kos the Palmer Report Occupy Democrats and InfoWars 60 In 2019 The Daily Caller along with One America News Network and The Gateway Pundit were categorized as unreliable sources of information by the Wikipedia community 61 with the consensus being that The Daily Caller publishes false or fabricated information 62 Specific incidents Edit In 2011 The Daily Caller was the first news outlet to disseminate a Project Veritas video by conservative provocateur James O Keefe which purportedly showed an NPR fundraiser deriding Republicans The video was later proven to have been misleadingly edited 10 In February 2012 The Daily Caller was criticized for an investigative series of articles co authored by Carlson purporting to be an insiders expose of Media Matters for America MMfA a liberal watchdog group that monitors and scrutinizes conservative media outlets and its founder David Brock 63 Citing current and former MMfA employees friends of Brock s and a prominent liberal the article characterized MMfA as having an atmosphere of tension and paranoia and portrayed Brock as erratic unstable and disturbing who struggles with mental illness in fear of right wing assassins a regular cocaine user and would close local bars and party till six in the morning Reuters media critic and libertarian Jack Shafer criticized The Daily Caller piece as anonymously sourced crap adding Daily Caller is attacking Media Matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda Shafer said that he had never thought much of Media Matters style of watchdogging or Brock s journalism 64 In August 2018 The Daily Caller ran a story alleging that a Chinese owned company had hacked then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton s private email server and successfully obtained nearly all of her emails citing only two sources briefed on the matter President Trump retweeted the allegations made in The Daily Caller s unsubstantiated reporting The FBI stated that there was no evidence to support the story 65 66 In January 2019 The Daily Caller published a story with the misleading headline Here s The Photo Some Described as a Nude Selfie of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez The photo was not of Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez and Ocasio Cortez condemned The Daily Caller s action as completely disgusting behavior 15 The Daily Caller apologized for the headline and changed it 19 The Daily Caller said that the content of the story was not unlike stories published by Vice and The Huffington Post 67 Vice had in fact published an article debunking the claim that the photo was of Ocasio Cortez 68 Debunked prostitution allegations regarding Bob Menendez Edit In November 2012 The Daily Caller posted interviews with two women claiming that New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez had paid them for sex while he was a guest of a campaign donor 69 The allegation came five days before the 2012 United States Senate election in New Jersey News organizations such as ABC News which had also interviewed the women The New York Times and the New York Post declined to publish the allegations viewing them as unsubstantiated and lacking credibility 70 71 11 Subsequently one of the women who accused Menendez stated that she had been paid to falsely implicate the senator and had never met him 70 72 Menendez s office described the allegations as manufactured by a right wing blog as a politically motivated smear 12 A few weeks later police in the Dominican Republic announced that three women had claimed they were paid 300 425 each to lie about having had sex with Menendez 73 and alleged that the women had been paid to lie about Menendez by an individual claiming to work for The Daily Caller The website denied this allegation stating At no point did any money change hands between The Daily Caller and any sources or individuals connected with this investigation 74 Describing what it saw as the unraveling of The Daily Caller scoop the Poynter Institute wrote The Daily Caller stands by its reports though apparently doesn t feel the need to prove its allegations right 75 Debunked conspiracy theories about Imran Awan Edit In February 2017 Politico and BuzzFeed reported Capitol Police accused five IT staffers for Democrats in the U S House of Representatives of trying to steal House computer equipment and violating House security policies 76 77 78 Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was one of several House members who did not terminate the suspected staffers after the criminal complaints 79 In July 2017 one of the accused staffers Imran Awan was arrested for making a false statement on a bank loan application 80 81 After his arrest Wasserman Schultz s office fired Awan 82 The Daily Caller pushed conspiracy theories about Awan 83 84 seeking to tie Awan to many alleged criminal activities including unauthorized access to government servers 85 The reporter behind the coverage of Awan told Fox News that the affair was straight out of James Bond 85 An 18 month investigation by federal prosecutors found no evidence of wrongdoing in Awan s work in the House and no support for the conspiracy theories about Awan In the announcement of the conclusion of the investigation investigators rebuked a litany of right wing conspiracy theories about Awan 83 84 Controversies EditThe Daily Caller has been involved in several controversial incidents In March 2015 The Daily Caller columnist Mickey Kaus quit after editor Tucker Carlson refused to run a column critical of Fox News coverage of the immigration policy debate 86 Carlson who worked for Fox News at the time reportedly did not want The Daily Caller publishing criticism of a firm that employed him 87 In January 2017 The Daily Caller posted a video which encouraged violence against protesters 88 89 90 91 The footage showed a car driving into demonstrators with the headline Here s A Reel of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying to Block the Road The video clip was set to a cover of the Ludacris song Move Bitch 88 The video clip drew attention in August 2017 after a white supremacist murdered one counter protestor and injured 35 more by intentionally driving a car into them at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville Virginia 88 After the video attracted attention The Daily Caller deleted it from its website 88 91 In 2018 The Daily Caller was the first news outlet to report on Stefan Halper a confidential FBI source and his interactions with Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos Papadopoulos later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about campaign matters 92 Page became the subject of surveillance warrants issued by the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court regarding contacts with Russian intelligence officials 93 Other news outlets confirmed Halper s identity but did not report his identity because US intelligence officials warned that it would endanger him and his contacts 94 95 96 In 2020 during The Daily Caller s coverage of protests in Louisville Kentucky related to the shooting of Breonna Taylor and subsequent verdict on the police involved two of their reporters were arrested and held overnight Co founder Patel threatened to take legal action against the Louisville Metro Police Department citing freedom of the press 97 98 2016 presidential election conspiracy theories Edit nbsp Daily Caller journalist Stephanie Hamill interviewing Republican Congressman Andy Biggs in 2020 According to a study by Harvard University s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society The Daily Caller was among the most popular right wing news sites during the 2016 United States presidential election The study found that The Daily Caller provided amplification and legitimation for the most extreme conspiracy sites such as Truthfeed InfoWars The Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse 99 100 101 The Daily Caller also employed anti immigrant narratives that echoed sentiments from the alt right and white nationalists but without the explicitly racist and pro segregation language 100 In one of its most frequently shared stories The Daily Caller falsely asserted that Morocco s King Mohammed VI flew Bill Clinton on a private jet and that this had been omitted from the Clinton Foundation s tax disclosures 100 The Daily Caller also made the utterly unsubstantiated and unsourced claim that Hillary Clinton instructed Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson to try to shut down Mosaic Fertilizer described as America s largest phosphate mining company in exchange for a 15 million donation to the Clinton Foundation from King Mohammed VI of Morocco ostensibly to benefit Morocco s state owned phosphate company 100 2017 allegation of non profit abuse Edit According to Callum Borchers of The Washington Post The Daily Caller has a peculiar business structure that enables it to increase revenue while reducing its tax obligation 102 The organization a for profit company does this by relying on its charity arm The Daily Caller News Foundation to create the majority of its news content 103 Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy argues It s a huge rip off for taxpayers if The Daily Caller News Foundation is receiving revenue that it doesn t pay taxes on to produce stories that are used by the for profit enterprise which then makes money on the stories through ads Benjamin M Leff of American University writes But the fact that it also provides its content to other publishers for free is evidence that it is not operated for the private benefit of the for profit even if the for profit is the dominant user of its content 104 Ties to white supremacists in 2017 2018 Edit Scott Greer was deputy editor and contributor at The Daily Caller After his departure in June 2018 it was revealed that he published articles espousing white nationalist racist anti black and antisemitic views under a pseudonym in white supremacist publications 17 In September 2018 The Atlantic reported that Greer between 2014 18 and 2018 had written pieces under a pseudonym Michael McGregor in the white supremacist publication Radix Journal from 2014 to 2015 In articles for Radix Journal Greer expressed white nationalist views as well as racist anti black and antisemitic views In his emails and messages he exchanged anti Christian and antisemitic comments with colleagues including Richard Spencer 17 After being confronted with his past white supremacist writings Greer resigned from any affiliation with The Daily Caller 17 In 2017 it was revealed that Greer had ties to members of the white nationalist movement including friendships with Devin Saucier assistant to Jared Taylor of American Renaissance and anti immigrant activist Marcus Epstein of VDARE who had pled guilty to assaulting an African American woman two years prior to the beginning of his relationship with Greer 105 Greer had later deleted parts of his Facebook page but is seen photographed with white nationalists such as Spencer Tim Dionisopoulos the Wolves of Vinland and also appears wearing clothes belonging to the group Youth for Western Civilization 106 105 The Daily Caller subsequently stated about why he had not been fired in 2017 We had two choices Fire a young man because of some photos taken of him at metal shows in college or take his word We chose to trust him Now if what you allege is accurate we know that trust was a mistake we know he lied to us We won t publish him anyone in these circles or anyone who thinks like them People who associate with these losers have no business writing for our company 17 Prior to June 2017 107 18 The Daily Caller had published freelance articles by Jason Kessler 105 a white supremacist who organized the Unite the Right rally in August 2017 in Charlottesville Virginia 108 109 36 That rally took place while Kessler was suspended from The Daily Caller after ProPublica had found that an article he had written for The Daily Caller about a previous torchlight rally in Charlottesville in May 2017 had not disclosed that he made a speech at the event praising fascist and racist groups 110 36 After the suspension Daily Caller executive editor Paul Conner defended Kessler s article as accurate 110 111 The Daily Caller deleted all of Kessler s articles from its website in August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally which he had organized with Spencer and others turned into deadly violence 36 Until 2017 18 the website had also published pieces by Peter Brimelow founder of the white supremacist website VDARE 105 112 and by David Hilton an anti Semite who has pushed conspiracy theories that Israel was behind the 9 11 attacks In his articles for The Daily Caller Hilton promoted anti Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros as well as conspiracy theories about Cultural Marxism 18 The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC reported in 2017 that The Daily Caller had a white nationalist problem citing contributions by Kessler Brimelow Greer and Ilana Mercer whose writing on supposed racially motivated crime in South Africa was also published on the white nationalist website American Renaissance the same day it appeared in The Daily Caller 106 The SPLC retracted a claim about a Daily Caller reporter Richard Pollock stating that except for speaking at a 2017 event of the H L Mencken Club considered a white nationalist group there is no evidence to suggest Mr Pollock is otherwise a white nationalist 106 in 2018 according to the SPLC Pollock cancelled his scheduled attendance at the same group s event 113 Staff contributors and organization Edit nbsp Daily Caller co founder Tucker CarlsonThe Daily Caller is in the White House rotating press pool and has full time reporters on Capitol Hill 114 Contributors to The Daily Caller have included economist Larry Kudlow Congressman Mark Sanford former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich former US Senate Candidate and Judge Jeanine Pirro sculptor Robert Mihaly diplomat Alan Keyes political commentator Ann Coulter and the NRA ILA 122 Content has also been contributed to the site by Lanny Davis a former special counsel under Bill Clinton and by political blogger Mickey Kaus 1 who quit in 2015 86 The Daily Caller hosts The Mirror a blog written by former FishbowlDC editor and The Hill columnist Betsy Rothstein The Mirror covers media in Washington D C news related to journalism organizations as well as political and media related gossip The tagline is Reflections of a self obsessed city 123 124 Billionaire and businessman Charles Koch has made charitable donations to the Daily Caller News Foundation 125 Check Your Fact subsidiary website EditIn 2017 The Daily Caller launched a for profit subsidiary fact checking website called Check Your Fact In 2018 the site was approved by Poynter Institute s International Fact Checking Network IFCN to become a fact checking partner of Facebook in 2019 38 126 127 The website is editorially independent of The Daily Caller and has its own staff 41 Awards Edit2012 The Daily Caller won one of 99 Edward R Murrow Awards issued by the Radio Television Digital News Association that year for Horse Soldiers of 9 11 a documentary by Alex Quade about the first US special forces troops who 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Chris C June 4 2015 Federal scientists say there never was any global warming pause The Washington Post Retrieved July 19 2018 Chait Jonathan June 4 2015 Scientists Drop Science Bomb on Climate Change Skeptics Daily Intelligencer Retrieved July 19 2018 McDonald Jessica December 26 2018 Trump Administration Distorts the Facts On Climate Report FactCheck org Retrieved June 11 2019 Tucker Carlson Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved June 14 2022 Grinberg Nir Joseph Kenneth Friedland Lisa Swire Thompson Briony Lazer David January 25 2019 Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U S presidential election Science 363 6425 374 378 Bibcode 2019Sci 363 374G doi 10 1126 science aau2706 ISSN 0036 8075 PMID 30679368 S2CID 59248491 Allcott Hunt Gentzkow Matthew Yu Chuan April 1 2019 Trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media PDF Research amp Politics SAGE Publishing 6 2 arXiv 1809 05901 doi 10 1177 2053168019848554 ISSN 2053 1680 S2CID 52291737 Ognyanova Katherine Lazer David Robertson 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March 5 2013 Woman Says She Was Paid to Lie About Claim of Sex with Senator Menendez ABC News Retrieved March 13 2013 Lipton Eric February 16 2013 Inquiry on Democratic Senator Started with a Partisan Push The New York Times Retrieved March 13 2013 Leonnig Carol D Londono Ernesto March 4 2013 Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up The Washington Post Retrieved March 13 2013 Coglianese Vince March 18 2013 Dominican police Three women lied about sex with Menendez The Daily Caller Associated Press Retrieved March 19 2013 Leonnig Carol D Lazo Luz March 22 2013 Dominican official links Daily Caller to alleged lies about Menendez The Washington Post Sonderman Jeff March 6 2013 The Daily Caller s Menendez prostitution scoop unravels Poynter Institute Archived from the original on September 24 2015 Retrieved August 26 2015 Caygle Heather February 2 2017 House staffers under criminal investigation for alleged equipment theft Politico Retrieved November 21 2020 Five House employees are under criminal investigation amid allegations that they stole equipment from more than 20 member offices and accessed House IT systems without lawmakers knowledge House sources stressed the investigation which has been ongoing since late 2016 is focused on equipment theft and not a network hacking issue Stanton John February 2 2017 Congressional IT Staff Under Investigation In Alleged Procurement Scam BuzzFeed News Retrieved November 21 2020 Although the lawmaker said House officials had told staff from affected offices that contractors had been arrested late Thursday night US Capitol Police spokesperson Eva Malecki told BuzzFeed News that no arrests had been made but that USCP was investigating members of the House IT support staff Phillips Amber August 8 2017 The story of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and an indicted IT staffer that s lighting up the right explained The Washington Post Retrieved November 21 2020 February They are shared employees who work for 30 or so members of Congress Capitol Police ban the five from access to the House of Representatives network while it investigates Investigators tell lawmakers that it s up to them to decide whether to fire the accused staffers Awan is one of those staffers accused Most of the others are related to him including his wife Hina Alvi Caygle Heather February 6 2017 House staffers under criminal investigation still employed Politico Retrieved November 21 2020 Imran Awan a longtime House staffer who worked for more than two dozen Democrats since 2004 is still employed by Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz though his access to the House IT network has been blocked since last week Boburg Shawn Hsu Spencer S July 3 2018 Ex congressional IT staffer reaches plea deal that debunks conspiracy theories about illegal information access The Washington Post Retrieved November 21 2020 Federal prosecutors concluded an 18 month investigation into a former congressional technology staffer on Tuesday by publicly debunking allegations promoted by conservative media and President Trump suggesting he was a Pakistani operative who stole government secrets with cover from House Democrats As part of an agreement with prosecutors Imran Awan pleaded guilty to a relatively minor offense unrelated to his work on Capitol Hill making a false statement on a bank loan application U S prosecutors said they would not recommend jail time Schneider Jessica July 3 2018 Ex House staffer subject of conspiracy theories pleads guilty to bank fraud charge CNN Retrieved November 21 2020 While Awan s year long court case revolved solely around bank fraud charges pertaining to an application for a home equity loan conspiracy theorists have speculated wildly about the case Blogs and conservative websites have circulated allegations that Awan was involved in the hack of the DNC computer systems in the run up to the 2016 election and that he had stolen the Democrats server and distributed sensitive information to the Pakistani 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