The Daily Beast is garbage
I don’t care how much you like it for being left/liberal leaning, they are NOT a reliable, unbiased news source and today, they literally lied. They lied so hard they’ve redacted the original article title.
This post contains the original title of the article: “Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Team Up With Right-Wing Militias”.
But if you click on the link, you see the title of the article has changed, and that’s because no lawmakers teamed up with any right-wing militias. It was all a lie.
The new title is: “Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Flee, Right-Wing Militia Announce Protest“.
This is closer to the truth: a right-wing militia did at one point announce their support for the GOP Senators, and Senators have indeed fled according to the Associated Press (an actually reliable news source known for their neutrality).
I read the original article this morning but didn’t think to screenshot it, so I can’t confirm if any of the content of the article has been altered, but judging by the fact that the title was altered, we can be relatively confident some of the more outrageous claims in the article were also redacted.
The Daily Beast is garbage “journalism”. Don’t use them as a source, it just makes you look as stupid as someone using Breitbart as a source.