• BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    The Hill seems to be in Trump’s pocket.

    EDIT: Yep, a quick wiki shows that they’ve been slinging conspiracy theories since at least 2017.

      • BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com
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        In 2017, The Hill hired John Solomon as executive vice president of digital video. Solomon inserted material from advertisers into journalistic copy, leading to protests from The Hill’s publisher. In March 2018, he worked closely with associates of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, to promote the spurious Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory. In May 2018, Solomon’s role was changed to opinion contributor, although he was allowed to keep his original title. In September 2019, he left The Hill.

        It’s all over the place here.

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    The purpose of these stories is not to convince you to vote for Trump.

    By consistently saying “polls show that Trump is going to win by a huge margin”, when he loses by a huge margin, they will have laid the groundwork to cite the polls and say that it’s proof that Biden stole the election. “Trump was so far ahead in the we polls (that we clearly made up) that a Biden win was impossible!”