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Last week Candace Owens told the world the Daily Wire had laid off over 50% of its workforce — then updated it to “60% absolute bloodbath.”
I’m sure it will shock you to learn those figures aren’t anywhere close to the truth.
But there’s a much bigger story beyond Candace’s "mistaken" reporting.
The story is how lying has become the default operating system for huge swaths of both legacy media and the new online right. The Grift Industrial Complex rewards speed, sensationalism, and telling the audience exactly what it wants to hear over anything resembling journalistic standards, due diligence, or basic honesty.
I know this world because I helped build part of it. We broke past the old gatekeepers for good reason. The old gatekeepers broke all of their own standards.
But too few in new media even have standards to break.
They say bad money drives out good.
It turns out bad journalism does too.
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