Axios ripped after deleting tweet accusing border agents of 'whipping at' Haitian migrants

Critics ripped Axios on Sunday after the liberal news outlet admitted it deleted one of its tweets that referred to Border Patrol agents as "whipping at" Haitian migrants attempting to cross from Mexico into the U.S. at the Southern border.

Media fact-checkers were largely silent last week as the false narrative surrounding the photos, consisting of claims the agents were using "whips" to attack the Haitians, continued to be peddled by many of their own outlets, as well as a number of Democratic lawmakers. The photographer who took the pictures told a Texas outlet last week that he never saw agents using reins as whips.

Critics took to social media to slam Axios, with one pointing out that "journalism" was supposed to mean finding out what actually happened first and then reporting on it, while another accused President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of using the "lie" as an excuse to further open the border to illegal immigration.