I wished it were just a matter of zealousness. It is more evidence of increasing interference with the free press and communication media by the current administration, one that eventually leads to the kind of ban issued just today by Mr. P, one of Mr. T’s best friends.
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Tim Cook Faces FTC Warning Over Apple News Curation
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Jumpthesnark
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Of course there are "a lot of things on YouTube," that in no way negates my point, which is about original sources for news vs where people see it after an algorithm or some other third party decides what it wants to show readers/viewers.
What's that saying about going to a platform and if you don't see what the product is that's being sold, then you're the product? Yeah, that.
This goes to show that the president liked the gold plaque so much that he wants another one.
As I read your posts, I can clearly see that power.
Jumpthesnark
macrumors 68000
Wow. Where did you get that misinformation? I'd check your news sources if I were you. 🤣
Here's the final vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, per govtrack.us. And oh my, more Dems voted for final passage than Repubs did!
Oh God, please no. The last thing I want to see is Breitbart and Gateway Pundit polluting my news feed.
Apple has been issued a warning letter from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, urging it to review its content curation for Apple News so as to ensure that it is not suppressing conservative publications.
In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, seen by the Financial Times, FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson cites recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC), which claimed that Apple has promoted "leftist outlets" in its content choices.
The report in question by the MRC said that in January, Apple News "refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026." The outlets named in the report include Fox News, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, Breitbart, and The Gateway Pundit.
The report went on to claim that Apple News was more favourable to outlets such as The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal – publications that are traditionallly considered either center outlets or nonpartisan.
Ferguson, whom President Trump appointed to lead the U.S. competition and consumer protection watchdog, said Apple should conduct a "comprehensive review" of its terms of service and take corrective action if its content curation does not comply with them.
Ferguson added that the choice of stories on Apple News may violate the FTC Act, arguing that the stifling or promotion of content "based on the perceived ideological or political viewpoint of the article or publication" may be "inconsistent" with Apple's terms of service or the "reasonable expectations of consumers."
The letter came the day after President Donald Trump shared coverage of the MRC report on Truth Social. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also shared coverage of the MRC report on X on Wednesday.
Apple has not commented. The letter amounts to a sharp rebuke of Cook and marks an escalation in public tensions between Apple and members of the Trump administration.
Trump has generally refrained from criticizing Apple since Cook tried to repair relations with the administration in August, when he pledged to spend $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. Trump, in turn, promised Apple an exemption from planned electronics tariffs. Cook also presented Trump with a glass plaque mounted on a 24-carat gold base, a gesture that prompted an online backlash for its perceived obsequiousness.
Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.
Article Link: Tim Cook Faces FTC Warning Over Apple News Curation
And there's nothing "conservative" about government imposing viewpoint standards on a private company.
You may be right. They are still coasting on inertia though and quite frankly their competition isn’t trying. In silicon or Samsung for tablets and phones. In OS. Microsoft is actively shooting itself in the foot and Google is out to a loooong lunch in Android.
maxoakland
macrumors 68000
Conservatives silencing free speech as usual. They certainly don’t care if other news sources promote right wing sources
This is a violation of the first amendment
This is a violation of the first amendment
maxoakland
macrumors 68000
maxoakland
macrumors 68000
Didn’t know people needed a safe space away from the news
ClaraStahlbaum
macrumors 6502a
I see a ton of this "Liberals this" and "Conservatives that" in this thread. What will it take for people to realize that neither side has your best interest at heart? None of them care for you, they only care for themselves and their love of wealth/control.
What have Liberals or Conservatives ever done for you? Chances are - nothing! So why continue to play the blame game? I don't think its working out well for either of them, is it? Just the same old dog chasing its tail.
What have Liberals or Conservatives ever done for you? Chances are - nothing! So why continue to play the blame game? I don't think its working out well for either of them, is it? Just the same old dog chasing its tail.
That’d mean they’d have one less thing to complain about, which they don’t want.
Finding reasons to be miserable is the goal here. Not celebrating the disaster of an economy or decimation of democracy they voted for and being delivered.
One side is sucking up to billionaires and going down in history as the Pedophile Protection Force (PPF) and branding anyone that’s not a white man as a DEI hire, while the other side is asking for universal healthcare and being welcoming of everyone irrespective of how they’re born. By what measure are both sides even close?
Neither side is perfect but you can’t possibly tell they’re both the same. Not by a long shot.
ClaraStahlbaum
macrumors 6502a
Both sides defend Pedophiles, both sides allow illegal activities, both sides defend the funding of foreign wars, genocides, etc...
So yeah. They are the same.
Morod
macrumors 68000
Republicans are red
Democrats are blue
And neither one gives
A damn about you.
Democrats are blue
And neither one gives
A damn about you.
Your whole argument swings on the idea that Breitbart is an independent fair minded objective provider of verifiable truth.
One thing you could do is to take any story you linked to and fact check where that Hoax started and ended up using chatGPT.
Then you might understand why many here feel sorry for you as a victim of far right propaganda.
Let me explain that; All of your links are titled HOAX, they are written to appeal to a demographic with a particular mindset, in this case "Open to Conspiracy Theories" or "Belief in a deep state elite class pulling strings!" When you click, your prejudices (we all have them) get confirmed and emboldened. Author's will take some facts, twist them, add a few of their own and twist again. There will be no doubt in a reader's mind that SOMETHING, even if it's not that, is going on! That's why we feel sorry for people who have been sucked in, they've lost objective truth and they are blindly unaware of having it taken from them.
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bgillander
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I checked out the MRC site. Seems like the FTC should be sending them a note regarding their bias.
Apple has been issued a warning letter from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, urging it to review its content curation for Apple News so as to ensure that it is not suppressing conservative publications.
In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, seen by the Financial Times, FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson cites recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC), which claimed that Apple has promoted "leftist outlets" in its content choices.
The report in question by the MRC said that in January, Apple News "refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026." The outlets named in the report include Fox News, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, Breitbart, and The Gateway Pundit.
The report went on to claim that Apple News was more favourable to outlets such as The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal – publications that are traditionallly considered either center outlets or nonpartisan.
Ferguson, whom President Trump appointed to lead the U.S. competition and consumer protection watchdog, said Apple should conduct a "comprehensive review" of its terms of service and take corrective action if its content curation does not comply with them.
Ferguson added that the choice of stories on Apple News may violate the FTC Act, arguing that the stifling or promotion of content "based on the perceived ideological or political viewpoint of the article or publication" may be "inconsistent" with Apple's terms of service or the "reasonable expectations of consumers."
The letter came the day after President Donald Trump shared coverage of the MRC report on Truth Social. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also shared coverage of the MRC report on X on Wednesday.
Apple has not commented. The letter amounts to a sharp rebuke of Cook and marks an escalation in public tensions between Apple and members of the Trump administration.
Trump has generally refrained from criticizing Apple since Cook tried to repair relations with the administration in August, when he pledged to spend $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. Trump, in turn, promised Apple an exemption from planned electronics tariffs. Cook also presented Trump with a glass plaque mounted on a 24-carat gold base, a gesture that prompted an online backlash for its perceived obsequiousness.
Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.
Article Link: Tim Cook Faces FTC Warning Over Apple News Curation
Radin.Y
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bgillander
macrumors 65816
Why would anyone give you a thumbs down for correcting misinformation with actual numbers?
bgillander
macrumors 65816
It is very important to actually study history and realize how much things can change, yet still be called the same thing.
Jumpthesnark
macrumors 68000
I wasn’t talking about Apple News, I was talking about you saying you get your news from X, YouTube and the occasional news site. But you know that. Your reply is what’s called “moving the goal posts.”