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‘Important to name and shame propagandists’: Mollie Hemingway takes on Axios over ‘price controls’

August 21, 2024 | | Print Article

Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist Mollie Hemmingway has had it with the desperate attempts to twist Vice President Kamala Harris into a passable candidate.

While Axios is known to occasionally drop a bombshell or two, they also sometimes drop the ball. Hemmingway highlighted one such instance and even went as far as to name the author of the piece.

“It’s also important to name and shame the propagandists themselves. In this case, it’s [Emily Peck] who is doing this information op on behalf of Harris for Democrat PR firm Axios,” she wrote in a retweet of the article.

Community notes appeared to agree, pointing out that Axios had published other articles on “price controls” in other countries, one of which had been penned by Peck herself.

“The same author called it ‘price controls’ when the UK proposed voluntary caps on grocery store profits,” it reads. “Axios called it ‘price controls’ when it was proposed to limit how much Russia could profit off oil in a time of crisis.”

X owner Elon Musk even shared the post, delighting in the community note, which prompted Peck to respond and defend the articles.

“These are different stories about different policies. The UK was considering price controls – a policy in which supermarkets would agree to temporarily use standardized pricing on certain essentials,” she wrote. “In the case of Russia ‘it’ is a foreign relations tool. The policy Harris is proposing has to do with price gouging — not a government setting prices. It’s a system already in place in most U.S. states. Different policies get described with different words.”

But not everyone was buying it:

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