The Daily Beast has corrected at least two articles that claimed that the laptop owned by President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was stolen by a computer repairman.
The website published a story on Dec. 9, 2020, about the laptop that said the computer was “stolen.”
That word was removed on May 25. An editor’s note was added.
“An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Hunter Biden’s laptop as ‘stolen.’ We have removed that word, and we apologize to Mr. Mac Isaac for the error,” the Daily Beast said in the note.
It’s not clear what evidence the outlet had cited, if any, for the stolen claim. Older versions of the article weren’t available. The Daily Beast did not return a request for comment….