In 2018, The Hill announced Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton as presenters of a new slate of original programming to be produced by John Solomon.

[citation needed] In March 2022, YouTube suspended Rising's channel for seven days for allegedly "violating the platform's rules around election misinformation".

Then-Rising host Ryan Grim stated in The Intercept: "Two infractions were cited: First, the outlet posted the full video of former President Donald Trump's recent speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on its page.

[15][non-primary source needed] According to The Daily Beast, Iversen was a controversial figure: Aside from her COVID-19 vaccine skepticism, she also sparked complaints from Hill employees after she defended the Chinese government’s harsh treatment of Uyghurs (prompting co-host Ryan Grim to push back on-air) and seemed to peddle pro-Russian propaganda about Ukraine... [and] Iversen recently got into a back-and-forth with fellow Rising co-host Olayemi Olurin over deadnaming actor Elliot Page.

[13]From early 2022, its regular weekday presenters were left-wing Briahna Joy Gray (a former Bernie Sanders campaign spokesperson) and libertarian Robby Soave (an editor for Reason magazine).

[16] Also in September 2022, Rising refused to air a segment on their show in which left-wing political commentator Katie Halper called Israel an "apartheid government".

[18] On June 7, 2024, Briahna Joy Gray, who had frequently courted controversy during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war,[19] was fired from Rising after allegedly callously dismissing trauma and "rolling her eyes" during an interview with the sister of an Israeli woman held hostage by Hamas, who urged her to believe Israeli women's accounts of sexual assault on October 7.