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The Daily Beast has a rating of 1.8 stars from 76 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about The Daily Beast most frequently mention fake news problems. The Daily Beast ranks 92nd among Politics sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Great Reporting”

Michael G.
11/19/18

The Daily Beast has some of the best-written feature articles on the net, bar none. That's the good news, the rest of the news is the Beast's web interface is the worst on the net, bar none. I've been reading the beast daily for perhaps a year and there hasn't been a single session where the site hasn't bombed. Mostly, the problem started when they started trying to sell subscriptions to the "Beast Inside". They need to fire their entire web-dev group, drop the begging for dollars, and they'll get five stars from me. It's funny, even though the site's coding is garbage, the articles are often so fascinating I'll log it several times just to read the fascinating news.

Date of experience: 11/17/18
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Top Critical Review

“Propaganda”

Scott B.
3/6/23

The Daily Beast is the king of media "disinformation" as it pushes an extremely progressive narrative under the guise that they are presenting news. The fact that so many read and believe it as if it were the Gospel is a sad comment on the culture of today's society.

Date of experience: 3/6/23
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Thumbnail of user j.seans
Arizona
1 review
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February 2nd, 2024

Gotta tell ya.
When it comes to a waisted online journalistic experience, The Daily Beast is less than a waist of time.
For the fact that if your gonna go online with any type of story, at least the hell make it a readable article, not some kinda whore $#*! experience where one is left at the end of road in a Pay To Play Situation.
Cuz I gotta tell Ya, there is much much very more free journalism on line that literally smokes The Beasts article from hour to hour.
If I want to pay to read I'll throw my money at real writer journalists, no some off the skid's garbage $#*! rag.
See ya

Date of experience: January 31, 2024

Thumbnail of user scottb2977
Colorado
1 review
7 helpful votes
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March 6th, 2023

The Daily Beast is the king of media "disinformation" as it pushes an extremely progressive narrative under the guise that they are presenting news. The fact that so many read and believe it as if it were the Gospel is a sad comment on the culture of today's society.

Date of experience: March 6, 2023

Thumbnail of user anthonym2803
South Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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March 6th, 2023

When I feel bad about myself, I just think about all the people that read The Daily Beast. I have no idea how this is a legitimate media outlet. It's the real life news equivalent to the radio stations in GTA; if I didn't know better I'd think it was satire. Nonetheless, I'm sure readers of The Daily Beast enjoy sounding out the headlines between the breaks they take to clean the drool off of their chins.

Date of experience: March 6, 2023

Thumbnail of user wscoleman88
Michigan
1 review
4 helpful votes
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July 10th, 2023

Just read my 1st thing put out by the daily beast what a piece of garbage. Your staff needs to learn what class is. Michelle Obama wore some nice things but for the most part she was pretty frumpy. You didn't mention Hillary but she was a fashion disaster. Jill Biden knows how to dress like a lady and although once in a while her clothes make you say what is up with that outfit for the most part she looks great. You did fail us by not mentioning how our vice president who always looks like crap and wouldn't know how to dress nice if she tried. Mrs. Desantis wore what was appropriate for a motorcycle ride and she dresses nicely and appropriately. She is a pretty woman and looks good in whatever she throws on.Melonia trump was a total show stopper in anything she wore. You sounded like a woman who could only dream about looking half as nice as mrs. Desantis or mrs.Trump.

Date of experience: July 10, 2023

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Colorado
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January 15th, 2024

Daily Beast had notified the Ukrainian government where to find journalists Gonzalo Lira who was incarcerated and died from illness.
I'm tired of so called Americans leaving Americans behind and even worse yet informing a dictator where to find a journalist that is critical of the Ukrainian government's situation.

Date of experience: January 15, 2024

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Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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June 5th, 2023

I read an article about the terrible plane crash that occurred in VA on Sunday. The title is "Crashed Plane Behind D.C. Chaos Owned by Big-Time MAGA Donor Couple". How pathetic? These people lost their daughter, 2yr old grand daughter, nanny & pilot, and all you care about is what party they donate too, & if they support the NRA? Shame on you, Daily Beast!

Date of experience: June 5, 2023

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New Jersey
1 review
8 helpful votes
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November 22nd, 2021

Horrifically biased click-bait site. I would be hard pressed to find anything pertaining to objective reporting, or an accredited writer that could slap two sentences together without the hyperbole of an angry 16 year old on Twitter. There is no news. This is their formula:

1. Throw a dart at a board full of anything Republican, right wing, conservative, or not-left-extremist
2. Not investigate any of the details but rather pick the opposing view to the extreme
3. Write it out like you're reviewing a punk rock concert
4. Give it a catchy title that will attract young, impressionable youth to read the title, but not look any further.
5. Give it some wild claims further down for the idiots who are now young adults and still believing this is reality
6. Post it under "News"
7. Rinse and repeat.

Date of experience: November 22, 2021

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Montana
1 review
28 helpful votes
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December 31st, 2016

I have no problem with political leaning either way in any articles across the media "sphere". But to say that this "News Organization" is just a little left leaning would be dishonest! Almost like the daily beast! Again i dont really lean one way or the other in most issues, but i am particularly disturbed at how much the truth is bent and skewed to fit these peoples narratives! They "cleverly" hide their disdain for anything (anyone) that dont fit their "world view" inside asinine articles made to persuade you to believe every half truth and obtuse opinions they spew... trash website... trash writing... they need to get a grip

Date of experience: December 31, 2016

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New Jersey
1 review
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January 25th, 2020

Articles are garbage. They give clickbait titles and flail to substantiate that point throughout the article whether it is a true claim or not. Why this site is one of the first suggestions on google is beyond me. It would be very unfortunate if people who didn't know any better considered this a factual source of information.

Date of experience: January 25, 2020

Thumbnail of user anthonyl1169
Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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March 27th, 2022

Please do yourself a favor and don't fill your brain with this garbage. You can't hire writers, editors, and investigators who have been bought and sold by the Deep state to give you both side of anything.

Date of experience: March 27, 2022

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Pennsylvania
1 review
19 helpful votes
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September 29th, 2016

Don't believe anything they print. I have never read such blatantly planted disinformation in my life. Even more laughable is the advertising for an addiction recovery center (a worse racket than the war on drugs) featured on the same page- one of the industries that is threatened by the opiate curing benefits of kratom leaves. The Daily Beast is not news, They are paid off by advertisers to mislead you.

Date of experience: September 29, 2016

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North Carolina
1 review
26 helpful votes
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March 16th, 2017

Straight Garbage. They will take your words and twist them to feed gas to a flame. They claim they are here to stand against bullies and hypocrites but the only hypocrite I see is this POS website. They claim to use facts but we'll call them white lies and if nobody questions it they'll continue to do it again. I read an article they made about a certain person and they completely switched up his words after. These lazy bigots probably make their article before even interviewing anyone. More crap from a toilet. One day you'll overflow

Date of experience: March 16, 2017

Thumbnail of user johnm3044
Florida
1 review
17 helpful votes
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July 2nd, 2019

Journalism like this is really dangerous. The Daily Beast has a very clear agenda against Dem. Candidate Andrew Yang. Twisting the truth and mis- characterizing his platform. I will not be using this site and any sort of credible source of information.

Date of experience: July 2, 2019

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Australia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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April 4th, 2018

Tried over a 3 year period but there is nothing but right wing nonsense in this online paper.
There are so many independent unbiased non aligned web based papers, don't waste your time on the right wing garbage...

Date of experience: April 4, 2018

Thumbnail of user ds1045
Kentucky
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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March 28th, 2020

Getting an article read here is a total joke. You are held captive by those ads with garbage that isn't true about the military and Trump and you can't finish the article without agreeing to subscribe to pop up add from them.

Date of experience: March 28, 2020

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California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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July 27th, 2018

Mislead you into buying low quality crap then surprise! No refunds. A scam from top to bottom - stay away. Daily Beast should not be connected to stack commerce. You are ruining your integrity for a little cash on the side, Daily Beast!

Date of experience: July 27, 2018

Thumbnail of user chuckt40
Texas
1 review
18 helpful votes
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July 29th, 2018

Everything Daily Beast writes is a total lie. Never click on their national enquirer type of site.
They must just get a few homeless people in a room and ask them what's going on in America.
Total idiots. I mean really. Very uneducated low class types writing lies daily. Lets NOT give them a platform.
#BAN DAILY BEAST!

Date of experience: July 29, 2018

Thumbnail of user nizm
North Carolina
1 review
18 helpful votes
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September 5th, 2019

The writing is done well but the content is garbage. The reviews seem to be biased and. Bull $#*! propaganda to create drama for people to share or discuss the site. Not even worth my time to get more in depth, if you want to read through some lame reviews that is your choice.

Date of experience: September 5, 2019

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Netherlands
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April 19th, 2022

Gonzalo Lira has dissapeared and probably been arrested by the ukrainian secret police. Days prior The Daily Beast wrote a horrible one sided piece on him. They can be proud of themselves. I wouldnt be able to life with myself knowing this.

Date of experience: April 19, 2022

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Oregon
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April 26th, 2023

The annual fee was $35 and jumped to $50 without pre-notice. You can cancel, but only for future billings. Another money, money organization with no customer courtisy or sense of fair dealing.

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Date of experience: April 26, 2023

Thumbnail of user jonathanb488
Nebraska
3 reviews
24 helpful votes
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March 31st, 2020

The internet version of SNL. No value at any level. Prey upon the feeble minded and gullible. I don't appreciate the agenda. I would rate it a zero but this site won't allow it so I rate it a begrudging 1. Provides people the wrong perspective. President Trump is a good leader. The Democrats may win the election but their platform, ideals and tactics are criminal. Fake News supports the foolish doctrine. More government. Soros globalists. Entitlements. I'm all for helping widows, orphans and cripples. They need it. Fake News and Democrats will ruin our nation. So I push back to prevent it. Maybe one day they'll see the light? Democrats didn't believe in the Affordable Care Act. They were pandering for votes. Otherwise they would have made a half-hearted effort to make it bi-partisan.

That's just one example. Don't get me started.

Date of experience: March 31, 2020

Thumbnail of user pepez1
West Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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April 12th, 2022

I thought that National Enquirer was a bad publication, but man oh man, these people top it off! How do people even read this? Your bias has to be on another level to able to confirm it reading this garbage. This is extremely detrimental to our society, we need to get rid of publications like this. We are supposed to believe now that if democrats lose in 2022 it isn't due to bad public policy, corruption, extreme views or plain old a total disconnect from what the masses want, no, it's because Putin interfered in the elections! Give me a break! Who believes this doodoo?

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Don’t, that’s my tip for others who want to use the Daily Beast as a trustworthy news source…just don’t. We need to wipe out these sort of hurtful publications if we want to grow and evolve as a society.

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Date of experience: April 12, 2022

Thumbnail of user michaelg952
Washington
18 reviews
32 helpful votes
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November 19th, 2018

The Daily Beast has some of the best-written feature articles on the net, bar none. That's the good news, the rest of the news is the Beast's web interface is the worst on the net, bar none. I've been reading the beast daily for perhaps a year and there hasn't been a single session where the site hasn't bombed. Mostly, the problem started when they started trying to sell subscriptions to the "Beast Inside".

They need to fire their entire web-dev group, drop the begging for dollars, and they'll get five stars from me. It's funny, even though the site's coding is garbage, the articles are often so fascinating I'll log it several times just to read the fascinating news.

Date of experience: November 17, 2018

Thumbnail of user roberts1277
California
1 review
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May 19th, 2018

I have ordered a couple of things through Daily Beast and never had trouble. But then one order from a vendor never seemed to show up--the tracking number I was given never seemed to be recognized. The support team followed up very quickly, and always got back to me letting me know what the status was. The item did arrive, and I Evey much appreciated the way the support team strayed on top of the matter and kept me in the loop. Thanks so much!

Date of experience: May 18, 2018

Thumbnail of user juliaj
California
27 reviews
144 helpful votes
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October 19th, 2008

The Daily Beast is hit or miss - Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown started Daily Beast, a somewhat self-indulgent collection of original articles and syndicated work which calls itself, ". A speedy, smart edit of the web from the merciless point of view of what interests the editors."

Some of the articles are great. Funny original work like this article on David Gergen. Also, Tina Brown has called in such heavy-weights as the always brilliant Michael Kinsley. But for every excellent author, Tina Brown throws in a Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of the founder of Facebook, who is a poor writer and doesn't seem to have much to say of any importance.

So while I might be inclined to follow individual authors, I cannot find a compelling reason to keep coming back to the site. I just don't know what it's for.

Date of experience: October 19, 2008

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