Posted on 12/29/2025 9:59:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
One week ago, 23-year-old Nick Shirley was relatively unknown in the public sphere. But in recent days, he has gained hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views, amplified by Elon Musk, Vice President JD Vance and FBI Director Kash Patel.
The MAGA leaders promoted Shirley’s video of himself and a Minnesota activist investigating federally funded facilities in the state that allegedly posed as daycares without any children present. It’s part of what many on the right say is widespread government assistance fraud perpetuated by the Somali community there.
Shirley’s experience could only happen in today’s media and political environment – where seemingly anyone can go viral, helped along by social media gatekeepers like Musk. His Minnesota investigation video has garnered over 116 million views on X and 1.6 million views on YouTube - a number that most traditional newsrooms would trumpet as a major success.
Shirley and others like him present themselves as the future of journalism. They often claim the lack of traditional editing, fact checks and guardrails makes them more trustworthy. Meanwhile, the audience for mainstream media has been falling for years, and public trust in traditional journalists is at historic lows, amplified by political figures who make denigrating journalists part of their brand.
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Omygosh. Instead of doing a deep dive on the fraud they dug into the guy doing the diving. As Greg Gutfeld says, we don’t hate the media enough.
Which politician makes denigrating comments of the poor helpless media?
He’s a guy who should win the Pulitzer Prize.
Now when I see sources like CNN using the term “MAGA”, I can only think of people like Mara Ghey and how she pronounces MAGA as “Mah-ga”.
My hero, that’s who this boy is.
Handsome young fella. Gotta have a lotta new girlfriends.
🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable
pic.twitter.com/E3Penx2o7a— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 26, 2025
123M views now
Who’s Hadas Gold, and why is he more interested in Nick Shirley than in the billions in fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota?
And stop calling him Shirley.
Who is Nick Shirley ?
A real reporter who had more viewers on X and YouTube over the last 48 hours than all of CNN’s shows combined.
His parents get an A++++!
Meanwhile the Somalians and Tim Walz whistle past the graveyard.
Get those baftards and indict them.
I’d like to see him beat the crap out of Harry Sisson.
Who is he?
He’s the man who should be wearing his Kevlar vest at all time, flanked by security.
Doing the job journalists and law enforcement should be doing.
LOL
Who is Dan Rather?
Just some loose cannon fanboy of Fidel Castro with no fact checker or traditional guardrails, but the media never reported that until their nose was rubbed in it.
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