Sen. Marsha Blackburn demands Apple’s Tim Cook explain anti-conservative bias in news app: ‘A disservice’
NY Post
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is demanding Apple CEO Tim Cook to provide answers about findings that the company has “systematically suppressed” conservative media outlets in its popular news app.
In a letter to the exec, the Tennessee Republican cited The Post’s exclusive reporting on an explosive study by the Media Research Center, which found that Apple News did not feature a single article written by a right-leaning news outlet among the app’s “top stories.”
“The American public increasingly relies on services like Apple News to provide them with information, and they deserve to have access to perspectives across the political spectrum,” Blackburn wrote in the missive published Friday. “To deny consumers that ability through algorithmic promotion or editorial bias is a disservice to those who use your product.”
Of 620 stories featured on Apple News in high-traffic morning time slots in January, 440 came from outlets that were rated as left-leaning, according to MRC’s study, while 180 came from centrist outlets. Right-leaning outlets, including The Post and Fox News, were shut out.
Blackburn gave Cook a March 4 deadline to respond to a number of questions about Apple News, including whether it has “ever excluded or deprioritized content from right-leaning outlets based on anti-conservative bias.”
The senator also demanded details on the procedure Apple News’s in-house editorial team uses to determine which articles to promote, as well as whether Apple has conducted or commissioned an audit of Apple News’s algorithms to assess whether they exhibit political bias.
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