John Middlebrook/CSM via AP Images For The Daily Beast’s membership drive, we’re asking our reporters and editors to tell the stories behind some of their biggest stories. In early 2019, we got a call from a stranger who wanted to talk about two of the political internet’s most notorious fraudsters. […]
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Soon-to-be the youngest member of Congress, North Carolina Republican Madison Cawthorn has already faced a media onslaught that dishonestly cast a 2017 Instagram post, which showed his visit to Adolf Hitler’s World War II retreat, as neo-Nazi propaganda. Members of the elite press rekindled their misguided outrage on Monday in […]