Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website based in Washington, DC It was founded by now-Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political pundit Neil Patel in 2010.
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26 Facts About Daily Caller
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Until 2017, The Daily Caller had published articles by Jason Kessler, a white supremacist who organized a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
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Southern Poverty Law Center 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 published on the white nationalist website American Renaissance the same day it appeared in The Daily Caller.
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In 2011, The Daily Caller was the first news outlet to disseminate a video by conservative provocateur James O'Keefe which purportedly showed an NPR fundraiser deriding Republicans.
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In February 2012, The Daily Caller published an "investigative series" of articles co-authored by Carlson, purporting to be an insiders' expose of Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group that monitors and scrutinizes conservative media outlets, and its founder David Brock.
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Daily Caller pushed conspiracy theories about Imran Awan, an IT worker for Democrats in the US House of Representatives.
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The Daily Caller sought to tie Awan to many alleged criminal activities, including unauthorized access to government servers.
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The Daily Caller said that the content of the story was not unlike stories published by Vice and The Huffington Post.
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Daily Caller has published articles that dispute the scientific consensus on climate change.
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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.
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Also in 2017, The Daily Caller uncritically published a bogus Daily Mail story which claimed that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated data to make climate change appear worse; at the same time, legitimate news outlets debunked the Daily Mail story, as did Media Matters.
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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.
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In 2016, The Daily Caller published a story claiming that climate scientist Michael Mann had asserted that data are unnecessary to measure climate change; Mann described the story as "egregiously false".
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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.
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In 2011, the Daily Caller published a false story claiming that the United States Environmental Protection Agency 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In January 2017, The Daily Caller posted a video which encouraged violence against protesters.
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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.
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Hunter resigned from The Daily Caller while denying that he had been paid illicitly for any articles.
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Daily Caller is in the White House rotating press pool and has full-time reporters on Capitol Hill.
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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.
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In 2017, The Daily Caller launched a for-profit subsidiary fact-checking website called Check Your Fact.
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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".
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