@ossobuco,
These are headlines shortened to fit social media limits. Not just Twitter character limits but also how long a sentence is on a blog post or an article can affect how it looks when searched for. It's a good practice for SEO (search engine optimization), but you're right, it's inflammatory and biased.
I suspect this will end up, at some point, in Federal court. Not this particular case, but something like it, where a defendant claims that shortened social media posts made for more inflammatory and biased headlines, and swayed juries. It will be a rather interesting bit of fallout from what were initially fairly innocent business decisions made by companies like Google and Twitter in terms of how they wanted various bits of information to look.
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