Independent Journalist Receiving National Praise For Fraud Investigation

YouTuber and journalist Nick Shirley has made headlines nationally for exposing potentially billions of dollars in fraud throughout Minnesota—even earning praise from Vice President J.D. Vance. He also inadvertently exposed the mainstream media.

One of the most shocking details of all this is that Shirley was able to produce an over-40-minute-long documentary that clearly exposed Somali fraud in Minnesota’s health care and child care industries—without any major institutional support.

DePauw University Professor of Media Studies Jeff McCall pointed this out, saying: “He’s been able to show that with minimal experience and minimal backing, he can do the kind of entrepreneurial journalism that, actually, our nation needs more of.”

McCall went on to call out the mainstream media’s failure to expose this massive national story. “Traditional journalists—not only in Minnesota but around the country, the major news organizations—have ignored this kind of fraud,” he said, “primarily because they were afraid to take it on.”

He also pointed to the fact that Shirley’s documentary has racked up over 100 million views and national attention as evidence that the American people actually are interested in this type of hard-hitting journalism—but says he doesn’t expect the mainstream media to take the hint and deliver it to them.