Nico Hines is the London editor for The Daily Beast. He is most noted for a piece on gay Olympians published on August 11, 2016. The story was widely acknowledged as "dangerous" and "homophobic". ^[0] Calls for the International Olympic Committee to revoke Hines' press credentials followed shortly. ^[0] Within hours, the Daily Beast altered the article to remove some identifying details, and later took down the story altogether, and published a retraction and apology, ^[0] stating "Publishing an article that in any way could be seen as homophobic is contrary to our mission." ^[0]

In the article, Hines provided enough detail to identify the athletes, despite not providing names.

Openly gay Olympians reacted to the article via Twitter, including Amini Fonua and Gus Kenworthy. ^[0] Amini Fonua criticized the article, tweeting"Imagine the one space you can feel safe, the one space you're able to be yourself, ruined by a straight person who thinks it's all a joke?"^[0] Gus Kenworthy stated that Hines "admitted to entrapment". ^[0]