Getting mad about anti-vaxxers and the Delta coronavirus surge is one thing. But reveling in the mass death of people who refuse to get shots is a whole new ballgame. One that sites like Sorryantivaxxer. com focus on to the exclusion of everything else. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
The website is likely the most comprehensive repository of one type of now-familiar COVID story: the one where someone who criticized the vaccine ends up dead or hospitalized due to the virus (a story outlets like The Daily Beast have pubbed). thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
First and last names, and faces of the deceased, are prominent on the site, as is editorializing from the anonymous proprietor. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
"The goal is to scare the bejeezus out of people on the fence about getting vaccinated against COVID,” the proprietor of SorryAntivaxxer. com told The Daily Beast via an anonymized email service. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
But reveling in this apparently irresistible daily fact of vaccine-era life is not confined to one site and may be doing more harm than good, according to health experts. thedailybeast.com/mocking-unvacc…
Then again, according to psychologist Alison Baren, sites like these might be filling a basic need that has nothing to do with ending the pandemic: joy.
Supporters of the controversial audit have now turned on each other after the partisan investigation failed to find proof of election malfeasance. thedailybeast.com/arizona-audit-…
Ben Shapiro and Facebook are like two peas in a pod. That’s why NYT’s @kevinroose says his job for a long time was just figuring out if Shapiro had five or seven "of the top ten” most-engaged pages on the platform.
And even though Donald Trump is pretty much running for president, again, despite being banned from most major social media platforms, the right-wing fuckery is still raging on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg & co. don’t seem to be doing much to stop it. trib.al/11ZOnRb
“The difference with Facebook is that it doesn’t want to admit that it’s [conservative-leaning] AM talk radio or that it’s a cable company whose biggest show is Sean Hannity,” @kevinroose tells @newabnormalpod host @MollyJongFasttrib.al/11ZOnRb
For decades, R. Kelly has been accused of various harrowing acts, ranging from sexual abuse to luring young women into an alleged “cult.” thedailybeast.com/r-kelly-convic…
However, despite scores of allegations—and even a high-profile criminal trial on child pornography charges— R. Kelly always seemed to dodge serious repercussions.
On Monday, after two years of delays, R. Kelly was convicted on all the charges he faced in Brooklyn federal court, including racketeering based on sexual exploitation of children, kidnapping, forced labor, and violations of the Mann Act. thedailybeast.com/r-kelly-convic…
Lauren “El” Cho was an adventurous young woman who left her hometown on the East Coast for a new life with her boyfriend out West—and then just vanished.
Friends who saw her before she disappeared tell @MichaelDaly "it’s still just a total mystery." thedailybeast.com/before-gabby-p…
As with Gabby Petito, Cho’s disappearance was preceded by an argument with her boyfriend, though friends say it did not escalate beyond a brief verbal exchange. thedailybeast.com/before-gabby-p…
Cho was last seen in California's Morongo Valley desert, striding away from the touring bus she shared with her boyfriend around 3 p.m. on June 28. She was wearing a yellow T-shirt, jean shorts, and Doc Martens boots. thedailybeast.com/before-gabby-p…
Alaska currently leads the United States in new coronavirus cases per-capita and is near the top of the pack in hospitalizations and deaths.
But that hasn't convinced cops in Bethel, Alaska to get vaccinated. thedailybeast.com/bethel-alaska-…
Instead, they are echoing discredited conspiracies common among anti-vaxxers: COVID vaccines might be the precursor to the mark of the beast warned about in the Bible—or part of a vast plot to implant microchips in citizens that Joe Biden is somehow in on. thedailybeast.com/bethel-alaska-…
To protect the small city and its precious health resources, Bethel officials put in place a mandate two weeks ago that says city employees must get vaccinated by Sept. 27 if they want to keep their jobs. thedailybeast.com/bethel-alaska-…
Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were abruptly asked to leave the stage of "The View" live on-air Friday morning just as Joy Behar was introducing Vice President Kamala Harris thedailybeast.com/the-view-hosts…
When the show returned from an impromptu commercial break, Behar revealed that both co-hosts had just tested positive for COVID-19. thedailybeast.com/the-view-hosts…
“OK, since this is going to be a major news story any minute now, what happened is, Sunny and Ana both apparently tested positive for COVID,” Behar said. thedailybeast.com/the-view-hosts…