Thread by @AG_Conservative

Wow. Reuters admits one of their journalists discovered Beto had been part of a well-known hacker group and they interviewed him about it in 2017, but agreed to withhold the information until after his Senate race in 2018: reuters.com/article/us-bac…

(ht @MattMackowiak)

I can understand wanting to get confirmation, but they essentially admit they intentionally withheld the information from the public for more than a year specifically due to the Senate election.

Telling that they admitted this without recognizing the huge ethical issue.

In case they try to edit the story after:

Beyond parody. At least he is consistent.

Seriously, how do you spend 2 weeks flipping out (based on questionable reporting) about FNC allegedly killing a story for a pol during an election, but then just excuse a Reuters reporting doing the same thing because he happened to be working on a book?

Amazing pretzel.

P.s. worth noting the book still doesn't come out until June 4th of this year, but I guess it was safe for Reuters and this reporter to publish about it now that the election is over....