Apple News maintains a left-leaning tilt under new CEO John Ternus, claims the Media Research Center, reports Fox News (which is, itself, hardly a source for reliable news coverage).
The conservative watchdog group says Apple News promoted only 11 stories from right-leaning outlets out of 504 published in October’s first 27 days. “Apple News continues to push content from left-leaning news organizations and frame information about President Donald Trump in a negative light, according to studies conducted by the Media Research Center (MRC).
Apple News promoted only 11 stories from right-leaning outlets out of a total of 504 published stories through the first 27 days of October, according to the MRC. More than two out of every three stories came from a publication that media bias rating site AllSides considers left-leaning, as 67.3% were from liberal outlets and only 2% came from right-leaning outlets, the group claims.
This isn’t the first such accusation by the MRC. In February it purportedly nalyzed a total of 620 stories that were featured by Apple News in high-traffic morning time slots January 1-31. The Apple News feed is curated by a team of in-house editors rather than an algorithm.
Of the 620 stories, 440 came from outlets that are rated as left-leaning, while the remaining 180 were published by centrist outlets, said the MRC. Meanwhile, outlets which are considered right-leaning — including The Post — were shut out entirely, the group claimed.
In January, Apple News featured a total of 72 articles by The Washington Post, 54 articles by the Associated Press, 50 by NBC News, 34 by The Guardian and 25 by NPR, according to MRC’s data. It published 54 Wall Street Journal articles. The numbers for The Post and Fox News were both zero.
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