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The Daily Beast

47 audits on the record

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These numbers are not a fault score. A hard contradiction means two accounts cannot both be true; it does not say which one is wrong, and this desk does not decide. A masthead appears in these counts because it covered a contested story, which is usually a sign it was doing its job. Outlets that publish more, and get read more, appear more. Read the counts as exposure, not as error.

47audits citing this outlet
4carried a hard contradiction
35carried a framing split
28spans quoted

Quoted from this masthead

“Congress gives the office $2.5 million a year for repairs. Since the start of Trump's second term, his administration has steered $875 million into its accounts.”
August 13, 2026 · see it in context →
“The agency is planning to spend between $10 million and $20 million on the devices, known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.”
August 13, 2026 · see it in context →
“The contract will be awarded on a no-bid basis, according to the Associated Press.”
August 13, 2026 · see it in context →
“Donald Trump's handpicked D.C. prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, has quietly deployed a rare and aggressive legal weapon amid intense pressure from the White House to lock up the president's political enemies.”
August 12, 2026 · see it in context →
“With Washington's standard grand juries repeatedly balking at Trump-backed indictments, Pirro's new special panel offers a crucial workaround.”
August 12, 2026 · see it in context →
“Rather than proving guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" at trial, the 23-person body needs only a lower "preponderance of evidence" standard to draft a public, career-wrecking report--giving the administration the public scalp it craves.”
August 12, 2026 · see it in context →
“The White House is pushing the Justice Department to revive a discredited case against an innocent man accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as Donald Trump continues to fume over the debacle.”
August 11, 2026 · see it in context →
“with White House staff secretary Will Scharf—one of the people pushing the White House ballroom project—set to succeed him.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →
“President Donald Trump's top legal adviser David Warrington, who helped push the limits of presidential power, is leaving the White House.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →
“Trump did not say why David Warrington was leaving the White House just months ahead of the midterms.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →
“President Donald Trump has been humiliated after a second Republican he endorsed lost their primary this week.”
August 9, 2026 · see it in context →
“Jon Stewart Schools MAGA's Fave Democrat John Fetterman in Heated Interview”
August 8, 2026 · see it in context →

Audits citing The Daily Beast

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