Apple News ‘inflames political polarization’ as it excludes conservative outlets from ‘top stories’: bombshell study
NY Post
Apple News’ editorial team has been deliberately excluding conservative media outlets from the popular app’s handpicked “top stories,” according to a bombshell new study.
AllSides, a nonpartisan group that classifies news outlets by their political leanings, reviewed a total of 166 articles that appeared on Apple News over a two-week period last October.
The study specifically focused on sections of the app that can’t be personalized by users – namely the “top stories” and “trending stories” sections.
Not one of the 82 articles displayed in the curated “top news” section were written by outlets classified as “right-leaning,” according to AllSides.
Overall, just 2% of the articles reviewed for the study came from conservative outlets, while a whopping 50% came from left-leaning outlets and 23% from centrist outlets.
“Apple News’ model inflames political polarization in America by ensconcing readers inside a one-sided bubble of information that can manipulate and blind them,” said Julie Mastrine, director of AllSides’ media bias rating system and one of the study’s authors.
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