AP deletes Clinton tweet from two weeks ago 
 
 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (Photo: Brendan Smialowski, AFP/Getty Images) 
 
 The Associated Press on Thursday deleted a tweet posted two weeks earlier regarding a review the news organization had conducted of meetings Hillary Clinton held with individuals from the private sector while secretary of State. The original tweet, posted on Aug. 23, read: "BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation." | Getty AP deletes Clinton Foundation tweet 
 
 The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it is deleting a two-week old tweet about the Clinton Foundation. 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 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. Speaking with CNN's Anderson Cooper last month, the Democratic presidential nominee said of the growing controversy regarding the relationship between the State Department under her leadership and the Clinton Foundation: "I know there is a lot of smoke and there is no fire." Of the AP report, Clinton said: "It draws a conclusion and makes a suggestion that my meetings with people like the late, great Elie Wiesel or Melinda Gates or the Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus were somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders." Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said the AP "cherry-picked a limited subset of Secretary's Clinton's schedule to give a distorted portrayal of how often she crossed paths with individuals connected to charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation." Last week, the State Department said it would produce the remainder of Clinton's schedules by Oct. 17 after having previously said they would not be released until December, weeks after the election. “We have to be the AP, wherever our work is being distributed,” says executive editor Kathleen Carroll in the memo, which announced that messages on Twitter would now be given "the same internal review and response process as other AP content."
– After more than two weeks of controversy, the Associated Press has deleted an Aug. 23 tweet about the Clinton Foundation that critics—including Hillary Clinton—said was misleading. "More than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation," read the tweet. Politico notes that the tweet failed to mention that the AP's analysis of Clinton meetings looked only at discretionary meetings and not meetings with federal officials or representatives of foreign governments, which tend to make up the majority of any secretary of state's meetings. "The tweet fell short of AP standards by omitting essential context," AP VP for Standards John Daniszewski writes in a blog post, setting out a new policy for removing tweets, an action that the AP used to see as "retroactively editing a conversation." Clinton and her campaign slammed the tweet and the Clinton Foundation story soon after it appeared, USA Today reports. "It draws a conclusion and makes a suggestion that my meetings with people like the late, great Elie Wiesel or Melinda Gates or the Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus were somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders," Clinton told CNN last month.