Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Daily Wire in the Strong Right category of bias and as Mixed Reliability/Opinion OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Daily Wire is a news and opinion website created in 2015 for “a new generation of conservatives.” Founded by political commentator Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, it is owned by Bentkey Ventures and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. In early 2021 Shapiro announced that the media company will begin producing entertainment content, including movies and TV shows.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Daily Wire according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 31.05

Bias: 13.21

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
Unhinged Leftist Hordes Tear Down And Burn American Flag	25.67	13
Trump Blasts FBI Director For Suggesting He May Not Have Been Shot	11.33	38.33
Kamala Harris Plugs Get-Out-The-Vote Effort On ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’	0	43.33
Obama Endorses Kamala Harris – In An Overnight Post On X	8.33	38.67
Arsonists Target France’s High-Speed Rail Lines Hours Before Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony	0	44.67
Democrat Insurrectionists Pull Off The Coup, Shoving Biden Out Of The Race	25.67	12
Biden Formally Opposes Bill Requiring Voters Prove Citizenship	3.33	40.33
Trans-Identifying Biden Official Allegedly Behind Push To Ditch Age Guidelines For Transgender Procedures: Docs Show	8.33	37
Freedom Caucus Leader Bob Good’s Virginia Primary Too Close To Call	0	42.67
America’s Moral And Economic Crisis	11.33	29
Catholic Charity Sponsors Book Reading Encouraging Children To Move ‘Beyond The Gender Binary’	4.33	39.33
Inside The Fight To Shield Kids From Graphic Material In A Deep Red State	10.67	36.67
Major Polling Firm Changes Its Own Results After Left-Wing Activists Complain	30.33	8.33
McConnell Reveals ‘The Single Most Important Thing’ He’s Focused On	4.33	42.67
Mike Johnson Invites Freed Israeli Hostage To Biden’s State Of The Union Address	15.33	26.33
On Immigration, The Democrats Aim Their Car At The Cliff	17	15
Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasts BBC Reporter To Her Face: ‘Why Don’t You F*** Off?’	4.33	40
Wife Of Assassinated Haitian President Indicted In His Murder	0	42.33
Dr. Phil Blasts Those Pushing Transgenderism Onto Children: Not ‘Appropriate Or Safe,’ Internet Is Driving It	12.33	25.33
CNN Reporter: Biden Told His Campaign To Highlight ‘The Crazy S*** That Trump Says In Public’	8.67	37
Trump Slams Haley In South Carolina: ‘I Don’t Think She Knows How To Get Out’	18	35.33
Houthi Terrorists Strike U.S. Cargo Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid To Yemen	0	42
‘Utterly Brilliant’: Viral Video Shows The Moment Student Realizes His Claim Of J.K. Rowling’s ‘Bigotry’ Is Unfounded	7.33	36
Biden, After Denying Border Crisis For Years: ‘Only Reason Border Is Not Secure Is Donald Trump’	8.33	38.33
Emmy Ratings Tank, Suffer Worst Performance Ever	0	44.67