TL;DR
- The chairman of the FTC just sent a letter to Tim Cook accusing Apple News of a liberal bias.
- The agency’s “evidence” of this bias falls apart with even a cursory examination.
- This aggressive letter is just the latest blow in the current administration’s war against journalism.
Journalism is in crisis right now, as the current US administration wages a culture war against the progressive trends that have been leading America and its allies into our modern era. For well over a decade now, conservative movements have been trying to muddy the waters with baseless accusations of “fake news” against the most venerated institutions of journalism — while ironically, failing to acknowledge their own propaganda as such. And now the FTC is threatening Apple News because hardly anyone actually wants to read that junk.
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