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Apple News will feature a dedicated section for 2018 US Midterm Elections 'fact-based' news
Apple is launching a dedicated section in Apple News to cover the US midterm elections. US Apple users will be able to view the latest updates for the election inside the Apple News app through November.
It will feature content from Fox News, Vox and other curated publications including some exclusives from the Washington Post, Axios and Politico.
[...] The midterm section will include features including 'The Conversation', opinion columns from diverse sources, and 'On the Ground' which is more localized reporting to individual constituents.
Apple will have a special news section for the midterm elections, curated by human editors
Apple's longstanding approach of using human editors to select a limited number of stories from reliable sources stands in contrast to Facebook's approach of letting publishers and users post stories, then relying on a mixture of technology and human editors to weed out less reliable sources. Facebook has faced sharp criticism for its role in spreading fake news in the runup to the 2016 presidential election, including posts created by Russians attempting to sway the election to Donald Trump, according to a grand jury indictment.
Facebook is taking measures to avoid similar criticism in the runup to the 2018 midterm elections. The company last week said it was ramping up its efforts to fight fake news, including expanding fact-checking programs to more countries and for the first time fact-checking photos and videos.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by meustrus on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:58PM
You think left/right bias is something Apple cares about? They are corporatists, not leftists. They have more in common with the National Socialists than the Labor movement.
You can bet that CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News will both be prominently featured. Depending on how partisan you are, between 1 and 3 of those sources feature "fake news" all the damn time.
But they all will be given top billing for one reason: they're big and they have lots of money. Don't even begin to pretend something else will factor into what Apple considers "trustworthy".
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?