[3][4] An article in the Tampa Bay Times subsequently reported that the Ku Klux Klan had been repeatedly contacted with requests to verify their stance regarding The Daily Squib's story.

[7] On 4 August 2010, The Daily Squib published a spoof article detailing the exploits of a masturbating Transportation Security Administration official and a full body X-ray scanner.

The satirical story drew considerable attention, such that the TSA ultimately issued a public statement denying that the incident had occurred on their blog.

The Daily Squib Kissinger satire, was also mentioned by former John Major era Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont on 6 March 2012 in the New Statesman.

Esenbel elucidated readers about the Daily Squib's literary style: “The tone is Juvenalian satire, that is to say, it is harder hitting than the jolly harmless Horatian kind, which is prevalent in so many other sites.” On 3 February 2023 Reuters news agency fact-checked[14] a quote attributed to veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger on controlling the food supply to control people is true.

On 18 December 2023 The Daily Squib editor, Aur Esenbel interviewed[18] former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Norman Lamont of Lerwick on the subject of Brexit and his stance in the House of Lords preserving the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum as well as the multiple problems encountered with the UK's ongoing relationship with the European Union.

Its mock report on the Ku Klux Klan declaring its support for Barack Obama in the 2008 US elections and its fake interview with Henry Kissinger (2011) fooled “serious” outlets across the world.

Though like lots of other good things this has been overlooked by the mainstream media, the Squib has played an innovative role in shaping internet-based comedy since 2007 and has fought hard for free speech in a climate of increasing puritanism on both the political left and right."