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10 times The Hill twitter account misled readers

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The Hill has become basically Politico 2.0 with it’s strong tilt to the left after many years of being at least a somewhat centrist political news site. You have hypocrites like Joe Concha who routinely appear on Fox News shows to talk about liberal media bias. Yet, you never hear a word from Concha about the liberal bias from the propaganda site that he actually works for. You’ll never hear Concha call out these ten tweets from The Hill that have misled it’s readers with fake news.

10 times The Hill twitter account misled readers
10 times The Hill twitter account misled readers

“There are just under 11,000 active lobbyists in the nation’s capital, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), and more than half of them — 6,243 — have reported working on taxes this year, according to the report, which relies on CRP data,” The Hill reported.

That’s all well and good, but that’s not the same as working specifically on the GOP’s tax overhaul.


The Hill‘s “top GOP strategist” referred to in the tweet below, however, is Steve Schmidt, an MSNBC political analyst who has spend the better part of five years ripping into Republicans and conservatives while giving the network’s panels the appearance of balance.

The Hill suggested through its tweet on Oct. 13 that heartless Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Puerto Rico needs to “get back on its own two feet,” implying Ryan meant Puerto Rico should recover from hurricane damage without federal help.

The headline: “DeVos flies on her own private jet for work-related travel.”

Wow! That’s … not a scandal at all. But you clicked, didn’t you?

But the Twitter headline read, “NEW POLL: Americans want alternative to both Trump and Clinton.”

Instead of specifying the percentage of likely voters looking for an alternative candidate in the headline, it used a vague headline in an attempt to make it seem like a majority of Americans would vote for someone else.

The actual article quotes the National Park Service (NPS) spokesman Jeremy Barnum stressing that Delaware North Cos. made the decision to sell the wine and that the NPS had nothing to do with the decision. While the headline of the actual article clarifies this, the Twitter headline appears to suggest that there is a conflict of interest since it does not include “says feds not involved” at the end of the headline.

“National Park gift shop sold wine from Trump winery,” the Twitter headline reads, while the actual story headline read, “National park store sold Trump wine, says feds not involved.”

The headline of the article specifies that Kushner was a “senior transition official,” but the Twitter headline just reads, “Kushner ordered Flynn to contact Russians.” This headline is misleading because readers may have thought Kushner told Flynn to contact the Russians during the campaign versus during the transition.

Trump’s social media director Dan Scavino, Jr. called the outlet out later that afternoon on Twitter and said it was giving its followers the wrong impression about Trump playing golf.

He went on to say that Trump was working and The Hill used an old picture of Trump playing golf a month earlier in Florida.

It included Scavino’s tweet and another tweet from Fox News’ White House producer Fin Gomez, who posted a picture of Trump meeting with his staff, in their article, but never changed its headlines to reflect that Trump was actually working. The Twitter account posted the article twice that day after it was originally posted with pictures of Trump playing golf. They can be seen here and here.

The Hill was hardly the only outlet to run with Perry’s comments in the worst light, when he was trying to make the case that better lighting in certain areas can help reduce crime. But it was certainly in line with its social media practices to dumb it down and create silly clickbait.