Rashad Simmons

Rashad Simmons Audience engagement producer Rashad Simmons is an Audience Engagement Producer for the audience and social media team at The Hill. He previously interned at Business Insider where he distributed news alerts, created social media content, and tracked social engagement. Rashad earned his undergraduate degree in Mass Communications and Marketing from Sam Houston State University.

Biography:  https://thehill.com/author/rashad-simmons/

68%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Former President Trump used the press conference to throw his support behind the Speaker, saying Johnson was “doing a really good job under very tough circumstances.”
  • If Trump came out and gave him his full support, yes, it would help,” Norman said.

Conflicts of Interest

65%

Examples:

  • The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 already prohibits foreign nationals from voting in any federal election. A few jurisdictions allow noncitizens to vote in local elections such as municipal and school board elections, though.

Contradictions

95%

Examples:

  • Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) called a joint press conference on “election integrity” from former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “absurd” Friday, given the indictments Trump faces over 2020 election interference.

Deceptions

50%

Examples:

  • Swalwell refers to the legislation mentioned at the press conference as something that is already illegal, and by the way, it’s not a thing.
  • The title of the article implies that Swalwell and Johnson are talking about election integrity

Recent Articles

Trump and Johnson Announce Legislation to Prevent Noncitizens from Voting in Federal Elections

Trump and Johnson Announce Legislation to Prevent Noncitizens from Voting in Federal Elections

Broke On: Saturday, 13 April 2024 Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson plan to introduce legislation preventing noncitizens from voting in federal elections, despite rare occurrences of undocumented immigrants casting votes due to strict identification requirements and legal consequences. The announcement comes after a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago where the two men raised baseless claims about hundreds of thousands of votes being cast by noncitizens in future elections.