Ben Meiselas
Progressive anti-Trump media entrepreneur· 285K followers · tracked by RisingPolitics
5.1Credibility Score (0–100) · ranked #205 of the creators we track
Ben Meiselas ranks #205 by credibility versus #213 by raw follower count — they reach a more credible audience than their follower total alone would suggest.
Audience authenticity is still warming up — we’re accumulating samples, so this score may shift.
Ben Meiselas is an attorney and media entrepreneur who co-founded the progressive MeidasTouch Network in 2020 with his brothers Brett and Jordan, and hosts the MeidasTouch Podcast. A former litigator at Geragos & Geragos who represented Colin Kaepernick, he left full-time legal practice to focus on the network, which has grown into one of the most-viewed independent news platforms in the US. He also serves as a law lecturer at USC Gould School of Law.
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Is Ben Meiselas left or right?
Ben Meiselas is the co-founder and lead host of the MeidasTouch Network, the flagship media operation of the anti-Trump left in Trump's second term — NPR in August 2025 described it as rivaling Joe Rogan in podcast reach, and it has been called "the Pod Save America of Donald Trump's second term." The network self-describes as "unapologetically pro-democracy" rather than partisan, but its content is squarely progressive and consistently critical of Trump and congressional Republicans. Meiselas, a former Geragos & Geragos litigator who represented Colin Kaepernick, brings a trial-lawyer approach, centering legal analysis of Trump-administration actions. He co-founded MeidasTouch as a super PAC-style project with his brothers in 2020 and has since scaled it into a full media company with a Washington, D.C. bureau; its podcast won Best News Podcast at the 2026 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards.
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How credible is Ben Meiselas's audience?
Ben Meiselas scores 5.1 out of 100 on the RisingPolitics Credibility Score, ranking #205 among the political creators we track. The score starts with audience size, subtracts accounts that look fake, and weighs how strongly the audience actually engages.
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