AP deletes Clinton Foundation tweet [View all]

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After leaving it up for two weeks? Yeah right AP.

The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it is deleting a two-week old tweet about the Clinton Foundation.


“The Associated Press today is deleting a 2-week-old tweet about Hillary Clinton’s meetings as Cabinet secretary after concluding the tweet fell short of AP standards by omitting essential context,” AP's vice president for standards John Daniszewski wrote in a blog post. “At the same time, we are revising our practices to require removal and correction of any AP tweets found not to meet AP standards, including tweets that contain information that is incorrect, misleading, unclear or could be interpreted as unfair, or having a problem in tone.”


The tweet in question linked to an investigation by the AP into how many Clinton Foundation donors also met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. “More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation,” the original tweet read in part.



What the tweet didn’t mention was that the AP analysis focused only on Clinton’s discretionary meetings with those who were not in the U.S. federal government or representatives of foreign governments, which likely made up the vast majority of the people Clinton met with as secretary of tate (though we don't know that yet because the State Department has not released Clinton's schedules for her time as secretary, something the AP has been fighting for). The tweet, and in some cases the story, was slammed by some media critics and many on the left.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/09/ap-deletes-clinton-foundation-tweet-227917#ixzz4JiCFBw4E