Gay Internet Goes Off On Daily Beast Reporter Who Outed Closeted Olympians

"You fucking disgust me. Do you realize how many people's lives you just ruined without any good reason but clickbait journalism?"

From: NewNowNext

 If you were outraged by the Daily Beast article in which a straight reporter at the Rio Games baited gay athletes on Grindr, you weren’t alone.

RE: Daily Beast -There's a form of homophobia that stems from the hetero male's jealousy/resentment of how easy it is for gays to get laid.

— Scott Rising (@Rising) August 11, 2016

I hate when I get to the dude's house and it turns out he's a Daily Beast reporter

— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) August 11, 2016

Gus Kenworthy wasn’t having it.

So @NicoHines basically just outed a bunch of athletes in his quest to write a shitty @thedailybeast article where he admitted to entrapment

— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) August 11, 2016

Neither was Dan Savage.

Dear @Olympics, 

Yank this guy's press credentials.https://t.co/4LlHZ75uzl

— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) August 11, 2016

Or our girl Jiggly Caliente.

#NicoHines is a vile disgusting sad excuse of a human being for that #dailybeast article. @thedailybeast should be ashamed for it.

— Jiggly Caliente (@JigglyCaliente) August 12, 2016

But no one clapped back better than Amini Fonua, the out swimmer representing Tonga at the Summer Games.

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After reading Nico Hines for filth, Fonua gave the writer and his outlet a parting glance.

Some time Thursday evening after 9pm, The Daily Beast took the article down and replaced it with a note from the editors.

“We screwed up,” they wrote. “We will do better.”

Today, The Daily Beast took an unprecedented but necessary step: We are removing an article from our site, “The Other Olympic Sport In Rio: Swiping.”

The Daily Beast does not do this lightly. As shared in our editor’s note earlier today, we initially thought swift removal of any identifying characteristics and better clarification of our intent was the adequate way to address this. Our initial reaction was that the entire removal of the piece was not necessary. We were wrong.

Today we did not uphold a deep set of The Daily Beast’s values. These values—which include standing up to bullies and bigots, and specifically being a proudly, steadfastly supportive voice for LGBT people all over the world—are core to our commitment to journalism and to our commitment to serving our readers.

As a newsroom, we succeed together and we fail together, and this was a failure on The Daily Beast as a whole, not a single individual. The article was not intended to do harm or degrade members of the LGBT community, but intent doesn’t matter, impact does. Our hope is that removing an article that is in conflict with both our values and what we aspire to as journalists will demonstrate how seriously we take our error.

We screwed up. We will do better.