What Really Happened to Matt Drudge?
In the new podcast series, Finding Matt Drudge , Chris Moody wants to know two things: why Matt Drudge dropped out of sight and why he turned on Donald Trump.
If it is still really Drudge running the DrudgeReport now, and not some paid lackey to push links, then it would not be unreasonable to think he’s hanging on for one last job, to do what Joe Biden, the Lincoln Project, Liz and Dick Cheney, Mike Pence and every other Never Trumper has been trying to do for the last eight years: stop Trump for good.
I got online right around the same time Drudge did. For early internet pioneers, Drudge was our hero who forged a path to success by removing the middleman. Just start a website, and people will come. I was living in a guest house in Van Nuys, California, with a baby on my hip, a 1200 baud modem, and a really good idea.
I launched my site, Oscarwatch.com in 1999, two years after the DrudgeReport launched. The Academy sued me in 2006, and I had to change it to AwardsDaily.com. But that was a sign I’d found success, five years after I started. For Drudge it happened instantly and almost overnight. He broke the story of the century: Bill Clinton was having a sexual affair with his intern, Monica Lewinsky.
We all wanted to be Drudge. His success told us we could follow in his footsteps and maybe get that big overnight. It didn’t quite work out that way for most of us. There was only ever going to be one Matt Drudge. But everyone who came after him bit off a little piece of the Drudge legacy.
We would crash the party and upstage traditional media, which was still scrambling to keep up with the fast-moving internet. Drudge was suddenly a reliable source for news. People like me pretended to be journalists, but because we had websites that reported the news, we became reliable sources, too.
And yes, we all wanted a link from Drudge’s site. My memory confuses me sometimes and I think I actually did get linked from him once in the past 25 years, but if that had happened, it would have shut down my site. I would have remembered that.
The closest thing I get to a Matt Drudge story is my good friend Jeff Wells of Hollywood-Elswhere.com. Jeff was friends with Matt back in the 90s and even went to see Titanic with him in 1997. Drudge linked to Jeff’s site forever until September 2019, when it mysteriously disappeared.
I listened to Finding Matt Drudge slightly differently than most people would. Matt and I are the same species. We’re both creatures of the internet who escaped real life for a life online. That means I understand his need to escape it all probably better than most.
But the podcast itself makes for a compelling listen. Drudge is an enigma, to be sure, and a person I hadn’t thought much about for many years now. As a former Democrat, I didn’t even know he’d been partly responsible for Trump’s rise and that he mysteriously turned on Trump heading into 2020.
After listening to Chris Moody on Megyn Kelly’s show, I started checking the Drudge Report again. It’s still a site full of sexy links, even if most of us now use Twitter in the way we used to use the Drudge Report. I am bothered by the anti-Trump slant because that’s all we see almost everywhere else online.
Like today’s headline:
Trump’s comments related directly to the auto industry, but that didn’t stop many online from running with the casual association to political violence. Why would Drudge link out to that obvious clickbait lie? He must either hate Donald Trump that much (note the sudden absence of the black and white images talked about in the podcast) or his “one last job” is to finish the Trump presidency he maybe feels partly responsible for.
I still have yet to see any violence from the Right, even January 6th, that came close to what Trump supporters have endured:
A headline I would have liked better:
MEDIA TAKES TRUMP’S COMMENTS OUT OF CONTEXT - SPARKS A FAKE NEWS FRENZY ON X
A podcast about Matt Drudge probably wouldn’t be all that interesting if Drudge hadn’t disappeared from the map. Where did he go? Why did he disappear? Did he lose his mind like Howard Hughes or the Unabomber? Or is it something far more mundane, like he just got bored with it all, so he stopped turning up?
His entire career has been shaped by politics, starting with almost bringing down Bill Clinton, then turning his sights to working against Barack Obama, with his friendship with Tracy Sefl - a young Hillary staffer doing oppo research. Hers is one of the best interviews on the podcast:
After Obama’s reign, Drudge turned to Trump as the most exciting thing in politics. He saw what almost no one else could see — a rising star.
Right around this time, in 2015 or so, Drudge interviewed Alex Jones. This was one of his last interviews, and the media devoured it, accusing Drudge of trafficking in “conspiracy theories.” I didn’t see it that way. To me, Drudge seems like a guy who, once again, could see things other people could not.
The interview is not easy to track down, but someone did put it on Youtube once:
Drudge’s reaction to Trump seems personal, unlike “he didn’t build the wall like he said he would.” In the podcast, Moody suggests that maybe the Trump White House slighted him in some way, dissed him, or disregarded him. Or, they suggest, maybe once he got up close and personal with Trump, he didn’t like what he saw.
The story reminds me of a great film called The Year of Living Dangerously, in which a character named Billy (played by Linda Hunt) sees himself as a god-like figure orchestrating Mel Gibson's behavior in the film. Gibson gets a lead for a breaking story, and he’s told to keep quiet about it, or else it will threaten the life of Sigourney Weaver. Gibson, being a journalist, breaks it anyway, and Billy feels betrayed.
Of course, Drudge is not Linda Hunt, and Trump is not Mel Gibson, but you get the general idea. Be careful of people you make into gods - they might only be human.
It’s also possible that Drudge didn’t want to continue as a sycophant for Trump and feels more comfortable in the role of contrarian or provocateur. It’s hard to know why since he won’t talk about it.
The most interesting episode, at least to me, involved Bob Norman, the author of a Columbia Journalism Review piece on Drudge that tries to solve his reasoning behind turning on Trump.
It’s interesting because it gives us an image in our head - a place where Drudge lived and how he reacted when a journalist knocked on his door.
I can tell you this: We internet people don’t like having our personal spaces invaded. We have escaped real life largely because of that, so I understood Drudge’s reaction probably more than most people would.
And that house mentioned in the podcast is easily found online .
And here is the CJR story :
The podcast suggests that Drudge may have outsourced control of his site, but it also suggests that he never would and that once he is no longer interested in doing it, he will disappear, along with the site. Moody talks to people who knew Drudge, like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.
Moody isn’t the only person chasing Matt Drudge, though it is the most entertaining. There are several stories out there, which I will list here, Drudge style:
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Even if he does take his site offline, the Wayback Machine has it preserved in amber in perpetuity. There, I found this beauty:
By the way, if anyone is interested, you can also find all of Drudge’s now-deleted tweets on the Wayback Machine.
Most people don’t understand us internet types—we see our jobs as playing characters in a way. We have to do so because we have to have a compelling voice. I was the “Oscarwatch” person for many years before anyone knew I was even a female.
The character I play on this Substack, for instance, is the disaffected Liberal who trashes the Left and defends Trump and MAGA. I play that role because it’s interesting to me, but is it everything I am as a person? No. It’s one part of it.
Drudge is the same way. He plays the Drudge guy when he puts on his hat and scrolls the news for links (if he’s even doing it himself). But he obviously has many different facets of his life. He goes to Sweden, Israel, and Vegas—he doesn’t do all that as the Drudge Report guy, I can assure you.
One of the more interesting things you can find on YouTube is a short film of Drudge’s headlines in 2014. Why that year? I have no clue. Even weirder, the video only has around 200 views in total. That might be the best answer to why Drudge disappeared. Maybe he thinks his time has come and gone.
Pinning him down might be harder than one might imagine. It could also be a case of “never meet your heroes.” Maybe people are expecting the Drudge Report guy and maybe he isn’t that guy anymore. Maybe he’s outgrown it.
But I also think now would be a great time for Drudge to return and do what Tucker Carlson is doing on X - speak to the world with a monologue. He’s too bright and observant to just disappear.
Then again, if all he would do was try to put Biden in power for four more years, then no thanks.
Escaping Virtual Life
I listened to Finding Matt Drudge slightly differently than I might have if I hadn’t more or less lived my life the same way he did, as someone who escaped real life and migrated online, then lived there for the next several decades, for better or worse. I tried to have a real life, too, by raising my daughter, dating, and traveling.
It’s harder to build a life offline when you build your whole life online. I have tried to do both, but they are not easy. You have to give yourself over to one or the other to be really good at either.
But a part of me felt sad for Matt Drudge because I know what an isolating, lonely life it can be to interface with the world through a screen. I know he knows that too and I suspect that, more than anything, is motivating him now to switch it off.
Maybe one day, Drudge will disappear as mysteriously as he appeared. And perhaps he will lead an exodus of us internet creatures finding our way back to real life.
Something he couldn’t get or something he lost…
Finding Matt Drudge follows the narrative line of Orson Wells’ Citizen Kane, which starts with one question—what was Rosebud?
If the journalist in that film could answer that question, it might unlock the key to who Kane really was. He doesn’t find out what Rosebud was, but we do. Rosebud was the name of the sled from Kane’s childhood, the last time he felt happy before his life was destroyed by power and wealth.
What might be Drudge’s Rosebud? A matinee in Hollywood in the middle of the day? An old computer? A life without the internet? We’ll never know, and he doesn’t want us to know. We can only guess. The breadcrumbs left in Finding Matt Drudge suggest it’s something as uncomplicated as a good drink and a slot machine in Las Vegas.
You can find the whole podcast on Iheartmedia.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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What Matt Drudge Is Doing Two Decades After Exposing The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal
Billy Eichner plays the conservative reporter in American Crime Story ’s revisiting of the affair.
In 1995, Matt Drudge launched the newsletter that effectively invented clickbait . Operating out of his Hollywood apartment with only a dial-up internet connection, the then-manager of a CBS Studios gift shop crafted email blasts including musings on topics ranging from natural disasters to celebrities. Eventually, he expanded to cover media, entertainment, and political gossip, transitioning to a bona fide website that used flashy (often all-capitalized) tabloid headlines as his audience grew. Thus, the Drudge Report was born.
In January 1998, Drudge had his star-making moment: he became the first journalist to publicly expose Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s affair . True to the aggregative spirit that has since inundated media, he didn’t break the story himself but rather revealed that Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff had been working on the story. Newsweek refused to print it, deeming the subject matter too salacious. “At the last minute, at 6pm on Saturday evening, Newsweek magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!” the January 17, 1998 story began before going into details of the illicit relationship.
Drudge’s role in the scandal, which ultimately contributed to Clinton’s impeachment later that year, is revisited in FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story , where actor and comedian Billy Eichner plays the conservative reporter. “I don’t know if he’s seen it, but one of the most surreal and perfect moments of this whole experience was last week,” Eichner recently told The Daily Beast of his role, adding that his “gut feeling” is that Drudge will get “a kick out of” the show. “The Drudge Report posted a picture of me as Matt Drudge on Drudge Report as one of the main stories. In classic Drudge style, the headline was something like, ‘Drudge Steals the Show’... even though no one was saying that.”
Despite many similarities (e.g. their East Coast, middle class upbringings and affinity for pop culture), Eichner says he and Drudge’s “politics could not be further apart” and that Drudge has aligned himself with people he finds “so despicable.” Indeed, Drudge was an early supporter of Donald Trump’s. During the 2016 presidential race, Drudge appeared alongside Alex Jones on InfoWars , mentored late Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart, and went on white nationalist and conspiracy theorist Michael Savage’ s radio show to talk about Trump. In 2016, Carl Bernstein even called Drudge’s influence a “large measure of why” Trump secured the Republican nomination.
Following Trump’s election, the now-former President praised Drudge, whom he called a “great gentleman” and even hosted at the White House. About two years into Trump’s term, however, their relationship soured reportedly due to the President’s inability to fully fund the border wall he’d promised. Drudge became highly critical of Trump, blasting him for everything from alienating suburban women and struggling farmers to disrupting markets with his trade wars. In turn, Trump lashed out at Drudge on Twitter, publicly calling his onetime ally everything from a “confused MESS” to, yes, even “fake news.”
By the time the 2020 presidential election rolled around, Drudge had earned the ire of Trump loyalists. Ted Cruz called the Drudge Report “an attack site for the Donald Trump campaign,” while Fox News host Tucker Carlson labeled Drudge “a man of the progressive left,” lamenting that his site is now “indistinguishable from The Daily Beast or any other woke propaganda outlet posing as a news company.”
Recently, there were rumors that Drudge, now 54, was looking to sell his eponymous website, but they proved to be unfounded: he remains the owner of the Drudge Report , and, according to the Columbia Journalism Review, now lives on a $2.2 million property in Redland, a remote farming community in Miami-Dade County.
This article was originally published on Sep. 21, 2021
Inside Biden's historic decision to drop out of the 2024 race
Surrounded by a handful of trusted advisers and first lady Jill Biden at his vacation home on the Delaware coast Saturday evening, President Joe Biden reflected on a political career that spanned more than half a century and began to conclude that it would reach its end earlier than planned, according to people familiar with his decision.
Isolated, frustrated and angry, he felt betrayed by allies who turned on him in his hour of need.
“He’s really pissed off,” said a person in touch with Biden’s inner circle.
Mad as he was — and still is — Biden came grudgingly to accept that he could not sustain his campaign with poll numbers slipping, donors fleeing and party luminaries pushing him to exit. He may have been slower than other Democratic insiders to make that calculation, but he fully understood it by Saturday night.
The account of this critical weekend, and what led to Biden’s stunning announcement, came from interviews with two dozen Democrats familiar with what transpired.
In separate phone calls Sunday, Biden told his vice president, Kamala Harris, his White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients, and his campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, that he would abandon his re-election bid. The fact that he had to inform them in such a manner underscored the degree to which his circle had tightened in recent days to family members and a few longtime aides and advisers — Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Anthony Bernal and Annie Tomasini.
The outcome may not have surprised White House and campaign officials, but the timing did. Most found out, along with the rest of the world, when Biden published his post on X. The same was true for Democratic National Committee officials and state party chairs. Senior Biden aides scrambled to set up separate meetings to talk to staff members for the White House and the campaign, reassuring the political aides that their jobs were safe.
As it always is, the end was abrupt. But it came after a hellish 25-day stretch sparked by the most disastrous debate performance in modern American political history on June 27. Biden failed to reassure fellow Democrats — or enough of them — in follow-up public appearances. Major donors cut off money to his campaign and the party. In drip-drip-drip fashion, elected officials started to call for him to drop his bid. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, the godmother of the Democratic Party, said he still had a decision to make — after he insisted he had chosen to stay in the race.
There was less light than darkness on the horizon.
On Saturday, he spoke with Pelosi — a conversation her office denied — CNBC reported , citing a person with direct knowledge of their interaction. Pelosi, whose top close allies publicly called for him to leave the race as she stopped just short of that in recent weeks, did not respond to a text message seeking comment.
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Senior Biden aides expected that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both Democrats from New York, were likely to publicly call for him to step aside after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week.
Biden also met with Donilon and Ricchetti on Saturday. They went through “literally everything” — including bleak polling in battleground states — about his possible path forward, according to sources, but the two trusted aides did not make any recommendation about what he should do. Their sense was that Biden had already made up his mind to withdraw and that that discussion cemented it. Still, they all decided to sleep on it.
On Sunday morning, they met again, keeping everything incredibly tight to prevent leaks.
On Thursday, former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who wanted Biden to stand firm, said Biden was “feeling the pressure.” On Friday night, according to the person in touch with his inner circle, he still had not changed his mind.
Friends had told him that he was risking his legacy — as the man who defeated Donald Trump and enacted a series of major laws — and could end up becoming a scapegoat if Democrats get clobbered in November. He still believed, up until this weekend at least, that he could win again. In 2020, he had promised to be a bridge candidate. In the end, he did not want to be a bridge between two Trump terms.
“It became a no-win situation, a self-fulfilling prophecy,” former White House official Cedric Richmond, who was a co-chair of Biden’s 2020 campaign, said Sunday. Once money dries up and elected officials pull their support, “it’s impossible to win, and he’s always put country and party first.”
By the time Biden convened a call with his full complement of senior advisers at 1:45 p.m. Sunday, an official statement announcing his decision had already been written. One minute later, his X account posted that statement, telling the public that he would remain in office but cede his party’s nomination — making him the first eligible incumbent president to do that since Lyndon Johnson in 1968. Less than 30 minutes after that, he endorsed Harris, blessing her as the best choice to beat Trump in a four-month sprint to Election Day.
After his announcement, Biden made 40 to 50 phone calls about his decision Sunday night, according to sources.
In recent days, as calls for him to step down mounted, Biden asked to see polling his campaign had solicited on how Harris would fare in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter. They said he also reviewed public polling as he wanted to know more about her standing against Trump. The Harris polling was very tightly held, and it circulated to only a handful of top campaign aides, including Donilon and O’Malley Dillon, the two people familiar with the matter said.
Biden’s call appeared to hinge entirely on political factors, rather than concerns about his health or his ability to do his job. A senior administration official said that there was no new medical information informing Biden’s decision, though he had said himself recently that he might reconsider his candidacy if “some medical condition” emerged.
“If doctors came to me and said you got this problem, that problem,” Biden hypothesized in an interview that aired last week.
While his doctor has monitored Biden in recent days for a Covid diagnosis and did bloodwork related to it, Biden has not undergone any extensive tests or medical examinations in recent days, the official said. His last comprehensive physical was in February.
In affirming that he will remain in office, Biden implied that he is not worried that he can carry out the presidency.
Across the country, Democrats scrambled to respond — and prepare for a future without Biden on the ticket — in the minutes and hours after his announcement.
In Minnesota, Democratic Party chair Ken Martin was preparing a Biden open house in Minneapolis when he heard the news reports. In Illinois, a delegate had just received a phone call from the Biden campaign, asking whether Biden would still have their support in a convention vote. The news of Biden’s withdrawal came just an hour later.
Once he found out, Martin got on the phone with other state party chairs and advocated for the next step: have a unified stance within the party to back Harris for president.
“Everyone I’ve talked to right now agrees that we have to unify quickly,” said Martin, who organized a conference call with state party chairs Sunday afternoon. “The idea of having four weeks of turning the conversation inward is not something I’m particularly excited about. The quicker we can unify our party behind a ticket, the sooner we can get this campaign moving.”
An integral member of Biden’s re-election team found out after a family member read a news alert. The person noted how everyone around Biden was taken by surprise, particularly after some of Biden’s closest allies were on Sunday shows pushing for his candidacy.
“No one knew. Kamala didn’t even know,” the person said.
Harris made her own round of phone calls Sunday as many party leaders tried to ensure that she would face few obstacles to winning the nomination. In addition to Biden, she won endorsements from former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who was the party’s 2016 presidential nominee.
Several prominent Democratic governors , including California’s Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro — both considered possible future presidential candidates — threw their support to Harris on Sunday. So did a variety of outside groups that are important to Democratic electoral prospects at the presidential and congressional levels.
Biden did not want Harris to experience the same betrayal he felt when he was vice president and President Barack Obama put his weight behind Hillary Clinton instead of his own running mate. That helps explain why he was quick to send a signal to the rest of the party that she is his choice.
“There are some people who don’t want her. The president understands how that feels,” a Biden ally said, “which is why he did the loyal thing.”
Even as they began laying the groundwork for Harris to take over Biden’s campaign and win the nomination, many Biden loyalists in Washington were still stewing Sunday about the way their party treated him.
“Here is a man who has always talked about dignity,” a longtime Biden ally said. “And what was happening to him in a very public setting was undignified. Where does the president go to get his dignity back?"
Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News.
Carol E. Lee is the Washington managing editor.
Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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Natasha Korecki is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
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Matt Drudge (born October 27, 1966, Takoma Park , Maryland , U.S.) is an American journalist who is best known for the Drudge Report, a conservative news and commentary website that he founded in 1995.
Drudge grew up in the Washington, D.C. , a suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland. In 1989, a few years after he graduated from high school , he moved to Los Angeles , where he worked in the CBS Television studio gift shop. After his father bought him a computer in 1994, he began publishing an e-mail newsletter featuring hearsay about the entertainment industry that he picked up on the studio lot. In early 1995 he launched the online Drudge Report from his home, and a year later he quit his day job and began covering politics.
Drudge soon made waves in media and political circles. During the 1996 presidential campaign , he was the first to report Sen. Bob Dole ’s choice of a vice presidential running mate. In 1997, on the basis of an unpublished article from Newsweek magazine , he ran the story of Kathleen Willey’s sexual harassment accusations against Pres. Bill Clinton . Drudge ran into trouble later that year when he was slapped with a $30 million lawsuit after he ran—and then retracted—a story claiming that White House aide Sidney Blumenthal had a history of spousal abuse.
In early 1998 Drudge’s name became a household word. By January Newsweek had prepared an article on Bill Clinton’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky , but it was Drudge who first publicized the story, on January 17, after having learned that the magazine was holding its piece back. In an address before the National Press Club, he defended his tactics, characterizing himself as a “citizen journalist” who exposed stories that mainstream reporters were hesitant or refusing to print. Some observers praised Drudge for using the Internet to help change the way news was disseminated . Hits on the Drudge Report website, which had numbered around one million per day before the Lewinsky scandal, increased more than 10-fold.
(Read Monica Lewinsky’s Britannica essay on cyberbullying.)
Drudge’s notoriety landed him a weekly program on television’s Fox News Channel as well as his own radio show for ABC. His contract with Fox was terminated in November 1999 after Drudge accused Fox of censorship and refused to go on the air. The network had deemed Drudge’s plan to display a photo of a 21-week-old fetus (actually one that was undergoing surgery) to illustrate his objections to partial-birth abortion as “misrepresentation.” Though ABC originally intended to expand the broadcast of his New York City radio show to major cities nationwide, they also fired him, in late 2000.
Despite these setbacks, his 2001 book, The Drudge Manifesto , became a best seller . That year also marked the debut of The Matt Drudge Show on talk radio station WABC; it ran until 2007. In addition, he continued to update the Drudge Report, which remained a politically powerful, albeit sometimes fallible, news source.
The Influence and Evolution of Drudge Report in American Media
Examining the impact of matt drudge's news site since 1995..
Drudge's news site was founded in 1995, and in 1998, he broke the news of President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. He could be considered one of the pioneers of online news aggregation, shaping the way information is consumed in the digital age. The Drudge Report quickly gained a reputation for breaking major stories and influencing the national conversation on various political and social issues.
In the 1990s, the only places conservatives could go to get a more complete picture of what was happening in the world were talk radio and alternative news sources like the Drudge Report. Matt Drudge fearlessly reported on stories that the mainstream media often ignored or downplayed, earning him a loyal following among those seeking a different perspective on current events.
Past comments about abortion by Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a contender to be on the 2024 Republican ticket, resurfaced this week on Drudge, sparking debate and controversy. The Drudge Report has become a platform for highlighting both breaking news and old controversies, shaping public opinion and influencing political discourse.
News aggregator Matt Drudge, founder and editor of the Drudge Report, is promoting Vice President Kamala Harris as a successor to Joe Biden if he drops out. This endorsement by Drudge reflects his ability to sway public opinion and influence the political landscape. As a prominent figure in the media, his support can significantly impact the trajectory of a candidate's campaign.
Matt Drudge feared the Clintons would plant cocaine on him as payback for first reporting about Bill's affair with White House intern Monica. This fear speaks to the power and influence of the Drudge Report in the political realm. Drudge's reporting has made him a target for retaliation by powerful figures, highlighting the risks involved in challenging the status quo.
The Drudge Report's Matt Drudge is selling his very beige Miami compound for $2.9 million and we've got pictures. Drudge's personal life and business ventures have also garnered attention, showcasing his influence beyond the realm of journalism. The sale of his Miami home reflects a new chapter in Drudge's life and career, signaling potential changes in his media empire.
When former president Donald Trump struck a two-debate deal with President Joe Biden on Wednesday, the Drudge Report posed a provocative headline. Drudge's ability to capture the attention of readers with bold and controversial headlines has been a hallmark of his news site. His knack for generating buzz and sparking discussion has cemented his place in the media landscape.
Here's a scoop: Matt Drudge, creator of the Drudge Report, has finally snagged a buyer for his Miami home. In September of last year, Drudge's decision to sell his property made headlines, signaling a shift in his personal and professional life. The sale of his home represents a new chapter for Drudge and his media empire.
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump's most loyal digital-media boosters isn't just slowing; it's utterly collapsing. This decline in traffic to pro-Trump media outlets highlights the changing landscape of online news consumption. As audiences seek diverse perspectives and reliable sources, the influence of platforms like the Drudge Report continues to evolve in response to shifting trends.
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Someone is trying to take down the drudge report, and it's a mystery who's behind it.
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The Drudge Report , the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods during the past two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks, according to its founder, Matt Drudge.
And it's a mystery who's behind it.
Drudge wrote on Twitter that a December 30 attack was the "biggest DDoS since site's inception."
A DDoS attack is executed by using hijacked computers or electronic devices to flood a website with redundant requests, aiming to overload the website's hosting server and render it unavailable.
But, according to cybersecurity experts who spoke with Business Insider, using such a method to take down the Drudge Report would not be easy.
The site is already equipped to handle a high volume of visitors and scale out to accommodate spikes in traffic. Moreover, a website that generates so many page views would most likely employ strong defense measures, the cybersecurity experts said.
"The Drudge Report has a massive readership," said Ajay Arora, the CEO and cofounder of the cybersecurity firm Vera . "Generally someone that has that kind of viewership is going to have sophisticated hosting and counter defenses against DDoS attacks."
Since emerging in 1996, the Drudge Report has been a home to conservatives who feel disenfranchised by traditional media. Drudge has marketed his site as a news destination not controlled by corporate interests or politicians. And he's had great success.
SimilarWeb, an analytics firm, continually ranks the Drudge Report as one of the five most-trafficked media publishers in the US. According to analytics posted to the site, the Drudge Report has amassed about 775 million page views in the past 31 days — all with hardly any traffic coming from social-media channels.
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It's a high-prized target, one that now sees itself under attack by an unknown culprit.
Drudge has pointed the finger at the US government, tweeting that the traffic that downed his website had "VERY suspicious routing [and timing]."
"Attacking coming from 'thousands' of sources," he wrote on Twitter. "Of course none of them traceable to Fort Meade…"
Drudge seemed to imply that his site was taken down in connection with punishment leveled against Russia for election-related hacking . The first attack on his site came hours after President Barack Obama announced the US would impose sanctions against Moscow, and the Drudge Report had previously been identified in a discredited Washington Post story as responsible for spreading Russian propaganda.
"Maybe they think this is a proportional counterattack to Russia," tweeted Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS News investigative journalist. "After all they have decided @Drudge is Russian fake news, right?"
Neither the White House nor the Office of the Director of National Intelligence responded to requests for comment. But cybersecurity experts who spoke with Business Insider discounted Drudge's claim on grounds that the government attacking a US journalist's site would be a blatant violation of the Constitution — as well as generally improbable.
"If Putin wanted to take down a website, I'm sure he could order it," said Jared DeMott , a former security engineer for the National Security Agency who is now the chief technology officer of Binary Defense Systems. "If Obama wanted to do something like that, he'd have to go to different people. It would be a hard conversation to have."
"Maybe if there was a military reason to have it," DeMott added. "But domestically, there is no way."
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DeMott, however, posited that another nation-state could be the potential culprit.
"It definitely could be a nation-state," he said. "They do stuff like that on an ongoing basis, whether they are looking for intel or trying to destabilize a political region."
Arora of the firm Vera agreed, saying that only a "small number of groups" in the world had the sophistication necessary to execute an attack to take out the Drudge Report for extended periods.
"I would say it would be a group or nation-state that has pretty sophisticated methods and means," he said. "Given the fact it's happened a number of times and is persistent for well over a few minutes, and it's coming from multiple sources, against a site that would have a lot of protection, it would indicate it's someone pretty sophisticated."
Chris Weber, the cofounder of Casaba Security , agreed that because the Drudge Report was "getting so much traffic already," a DDoS attack would need to be on a far "greater magnitude" to be effective against it.
"It does seem unlikely that the Drudge Report would be easily taken down or slowed significantly by a standard DDoS attack," he said. He surmised that the attack that took down the site was perhaps more on the scale of the massive cyberattack that temporarily knocked out Dyn , a large DNS company, in October. WikiLeaks said its supporters were behind that attack as a show of support for the group's founder, Julian Assange.
Outside nation-states, it is equally probable that the Drudge Report has come under fire from a "hacktivist" organization, perhaps unhappy with the political views espoused by the site's founder.
Drudge has always been a controversial conservative figure, but in 2016 he went all-in for President-elect Donald Trump, often igniting controversy with inflammatory headlines emblazoned on his site.
But hacktivist organizations almost always take credit after a successful attack has been executed, experts said. So far, no one has claimed credit for the attacks on the Drudge Report.
And without a group taking credit, it may be impossible to determine the culprit.
"Attribution has always been hard in cyber," DeMott said. "The science is just quite not mature."
Arora said any information Drudge "can provide in terms of motives" to a cybersecurity team would be helpful in identifying the responsible party.
"There's a lot of people that don't like Matt Drudge," he said. "He likes to push people's buttons. Anyone who he specifically has knowledge of, who would be out to get him."
Arora added: "It's not just a technology question. It's also a motive question."
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The Media Equation
How Drudge Has Stayed on Top
By David Carr
- May 15, 2011
For most big news Web sites, about 60 percent of the traffic is homegrown, people who come directly to the site by dint of a bookmark or typing in www.latimes.com or www.huffingtonpost.com. The other critical 40 percent comes by referrals, the links that are the source of drive-by traffic, new readers and heat-seekers on a particular story.
By far, most of the traffic from links comes from the sprawling hybrid of Google search and news, which provides about 30 percent of the visits to news sites, according to a report released last week by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, part of the Pew Research Center. And the second? Has to be Facebook, right? Nope. Then Twitter must be the next in line. Except it isn’t.
Give up? It’s The Drudge Report , a 14-year-old site — a relic by Web standards — conceived and operated by Matt Drudge. Using data from the Nielsen Company to examine the top 21 news sites on the Web, the report suggests that Mr. Drudge, once thought of as a hothouse flower of the Lewinsky scandal, is now more powerful in driving news than the half-billion folks on Facebook. (According to the study, Facebook accounted for 3.3 percent of the referrals to news sites, less than half as many as generated by The Drudge Report.)
“When you look at his influence, it cuts across all kind of sites, both traditional news outlets and online-only sites,” said Amy S. Mitchell, the deputy director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and one of the authors of the study. “He was an early and powerful force in setting the news agenda and has somehow maintained that even as there has been a great deal of change in the way people get their news.”
With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is right out of mid-’90s manual on HTML, The Drudge Report provides 7 percent of the inbound referrals to the top news sites in the country. “It’s a real achievement,” said John F. Harris, the co-founder of Politico. “I covered the Clinton White House in 1997 and 1998 and I would never have conceived that he would be an important player in the landscape 12 years later. He does one thing and he does it particularly well. The power of it comes from the community of people that read it: operatives, bookers, reporters, producers and politicians.”
So in a news age when the next big thing changes as often as the weather, how can a guy who broke through on the Web before there was broadband still set the agenda? How can that be?
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One of the busiest websites in the U.S. in 2016 regularly linked to Russia propaganda
By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb , Matt Drudge’s link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States. Over the course of the month — the month of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions and the month of the leak of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee — SimilarWeb estimates that Drudge had 1,472,220,000 page views. That’s 1.4 billion , the equivalent of 47 views of the Drudge Report every second of every minute that month.
Being the second-most-visited site, incidentally, means that Drudge had more page views than Yahoo, Disney (including ABC and ESPN) and Time Warner. It had more than the New York Times and The Washington Post, combined — with enough space left over to also outpace Hearst.
By December, Drudge had fallen to third, the position it had held for most of 2016. That month, though, the number of page views had climbed to 1.83 billion. That’s as though 58 people loaded Drudge Report every second that month.
Translated into universally accessible terms, the Drudge Report was a traffic behemoth during the 2016 election. And every time the page was loaded last year (and today, should you visit ), there were two direct links to the conspiracy-theory-hawking site Infowars.
To be fair, those two links were included in the long list of links to news websites and pundits at the bottom of the Drudge homepage. But over the course of the campaign, Drudge was also not shy about linking directly to individual stories at Infowars, as well as RT and Sputnik News, both content-sharing arms of the Russian government.
After RT ‘forced’ to register as foreign agent in U.S., Russia says it will retaliate
DrudgeReportArchives captures an image of the Drudge Report every two minutes, as it has for 16 years. We ran a script that checked the first update to Drudge Report after 9 a.m. on every day of the past decade, counting the number of times Drudge linked to Infowars, RT or Sputnik. Over that period, excluding the two standing links to Infowars, we tallied more than 1,000 links to those sites.
Drudge started linking to Infowars in 2010. His first link to RT was that same year. Sputnik News wasn’t created until November 2014; Drudge’s first link to that site came later that month.
The first links to each:
- Infowars : “Racist film ‘Machete’ produced with taxpayer funds”
- RT : “Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way”
- Sputnik : “European Nations Repatriate Gold Reserves From United States Vaults”
On two days, we found four links to the three sites on the Drudge homepage.
One was on March 3, 2015, when Drudge linked to articles about how supporters of Barack Obama endorsed Karl Marx for president ( Infowars ), emails sent from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton ( RT ), about crime in Texas ( Sputnik ) and how the United States was sending the National Guard to Ukraine ( Sputnik ).
The other day was Oct. 6, 2015. The four articles that day: Activists using drones to spy on an NSA facility ( Sputnik ), how the Islamic State might be sneaking across the Mexico border ( Infowars ), support for a “white privilege” tax by Clinton supporters ( Infowars ) and a rumor that a mass shooter in Oregon was taking psychoactive drugs ( Infowars ).
There are probably two reasons that the Drudge Report linked to these sites with regularity. The first is that Drudge’s taste in news often tends toward the more exotic; he clearly understands the sorts of things that people like to read. The other is that Drudge himself seems to share some of the same sense of impending apocalypse and systemic collapse that undergirds a lot of the reports from these sites.
On more than a third of the days between when Donald Trump announced his candidacy and when he won the presidency, the Drudge Report had a link from Infowars, RT or Sputnik on its homepage by 9 a.m. The month in which there were the most links to the three sites was April 2014. The second-most links in a month was a three-way tie — including November 2016. There were no links to the sites on the morning of the election, but on Nov. 7, there were three: A story about protesters crashing a Clinton rally ( Infowars ), a story about WikiLeaks suffering a denial-of-service attack ( RT ) and a story about a German town building a wall to separate out refugees ( RT ).
It’s important to contextualize this. From 2014 to 2016, links to Infowars, RT and Sputnik were only a small part of the links on the site. There were far more links to The Post, for example — and to Breitbart.
That said, there’s no question that the three sites saw a lot of traffic that was driven by Drudge. In October, the month before the 2016 election, SimilarWeb announced that one particular site was rising on the charts, with a bullet.
“Last but not least,” the site’s Orit Coty wrote , “infowars.com, known for its acclaimed host and conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, made an extraordinary leap of 31 spots advancing to 84th in October’s ranking.” That month, Infowars had 57.8 million pageviews, more than the BBC, Wired . . . or RT, which had climbed to 95th, up from 108th.
What's with Drudge? Bought or focused like a laser?
- by: Free Press International News Service
In a surprising turn, Drudge Report removed ads between the end of May and mid-July, according to Danny Rogers, a cofounder of the Global Disinformation Index, a project that’s analyzing domains to generate “risk ratings of the world’s media sites.” After noticing an absence of ads on Drudge around May 31, “we didn’t see any ads on Drudge until about July 12,” Rogers told BuzzFeed News. “Any time a 20-year relationship comes to an end is certainly a surprising turn of events,” said Jay Friedman, president of Goodway Group, a digital agency that specializes in programmatic media buying. Corporate records show that Granite Cubed is owned by Margaret Otto. She and her husband, Adrian, have a business association with the Drudge family that goes back years. The couple acquired Refdesk, a reference website founded by Bob Drudge, Matt’s father, in 2017. They also operated a company that began hosting the Drudge Report in 1999 and later added Breitbart as a customer. (The couple did not answer questions about whether they still own that hosting company or if it’s still hosting Drudge or Breitbart.) Friedman said the connections between the Ottos and Drudges raise a question of whether the move to Granite Cubed is “a relationship play [or] a revenue maximization play,” given that today’s representation firms need to be “incredibly technically savvy and have a really good grasp on how to [succeed] in an automated ad market.” Drudge was characteristically silent when emailed by BuzzFeed News for comment about his new advertising partner and the strategy for his site. His old partners were also hesitant to speak, reinforcing how one of the web’s most influential websites remains in many ways a one-man black box. “Intermarkets no longer represents DrudgeReport.com, and it is our policy to not discuss former clients with the media,” said Kevin Lucido, the CEO of Intermarkets, which represents other conservative publishers, such as the Media Research Center and the Political Insider. For his part, Bob Drudge said in an email, “I am retired and have no comment.” It all makes for a startling shift for a publisher best known for a strategy rooted in changing nothing about his site’s operation. It’s also causing the ad industry to look closely at the mysterious new firm and its high-profile customer.
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It has not been available on the App store for quite some time. I was "grandfathered" in and have had it on my iPhones and iPad continuously. I downloaded the new "Official Drudge Report" and I did not get a new app; I think it just co-opted the old one. Everything works just as it did before.
Some users speculated that the Drudge app was originally removed from the App store due to Apple censorship. Most experts speculated that the Drudge app was removed from the App store for reasons of cost or perhaps not conforming to Apple's terms of service..
I read in the "Daily Caller" yesterday that Matt Drudge is in fact behind the new app.
Does anyone have any verifiable information on what has been going on?
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