Ben Shapiro, co-founder of The Daily Wire, an outlet seeded with money from the Wilks brothers.
The engine notes that The Daily Wire, though branded as an alternative to mainstream media, reaches its huge audience through traditional radio.
It uses Westwood One's legacy radio syndication — more than 200 stations — to achieve mass scale, meaning it leans on the very old distribution system it positions itself against.
It shows how supposedly independent 'new media' can still rely on established infrastructure, so the engine records the point but deliberately names no single controlling figure behind it.