Pirate Wires

Pirate Wires
Type	website
Status	Generally unreliable
Deprecated	no
Blacklisted	no
Recency	2025
Domain piratewires.com
	In source code; External links in articles; Spamcheck tool

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This source in a nutshell: Pirate Wires is considered

generally unreliable. See § Summary.

Pirate Wires is a source that has been repeatedly discussed at the Reliable sources noticeboard. This page collects and links information about previous discussions and current consensus, and summarizes it here for convenience.

Summary

Per an RfC held in 2025, PW is occasionally noteworthy for its strong libertarian or right-wing commentary on politics, economics, society, and technology as well as interviews conducted directly by a contributor. It does not clearly distinguish between news reporting and opinion. Some of its factual claims have been criticised as obviously false (such as the pseudoscientific promotion of bloodletting for all men and some of its coverage of Wikipedia and Reddit) or borderline antisemitic conspiracy theory (certain coverage of George Soros). Claims are often inflammatory and poorly sourced, with no known fact-checking or correction-publishing process. More reliable sources should generally be used to verify or replace PW as a source of fact. Reliable sources generally treat its assertions as claims, not facts, with the exception of direct quotes from interviews. PW has a conflict of interest when reporting on Peter Thiel.

Excerpt

Pirate Wires is an American media company and newsletter focused on reporting politics, tech and culture. It was founded by American conservative political commentator, vice-president of Founders Fund and entrepreneur Mike Solana in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discussions

Links

RSN

WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 498#(Archived, then re-posted to close) Tech for Palestine talk page discussion around the usage of PirateWires.com

Other

Recency

2025

Rfcs

No Rfcs for this source.

Notes

References

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Perennial sources
Source	Status (legend)	Discussions			Use
Source	Status (legend)	List	Last	Summary	Use
Pirate Wires (PW, PirateWires) WP:PIRATEWIRESWP:PIRATEWIRES 📌		2025	2025	Per an RfC held in 2025, PW is occasionally noteworthy for its strong libertarian or right-wing commentary on politics, economics, society, and technology as well as interviews conducted directly by a contributor. It does not clearly distinguish between news reporting and opinion. Some of its factual claims have been criticised as obviously false (such as the pseudoscientific promotion of bloodletting for all men and some of its coverage of Wikipedia and Reddit) or borderline antisemitic conspiracy theory (certain coverage of George Soros). Claims are often inflammatory and poorly sourced, with no known fact-checking or correction-publishing process. More reliable sources should generally be used to verify or replace PW as a source of fact. Reliable sources generally treat its assertions as claims, not facts, with the exception of direct quotes from interviews. PW has a conflict of interest when reporting on Peter Thiel.	1