Apple News promoted more than 80 stories that negatively framed Republican priorities in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, while promoting zero positive stories, according to new research.
\n\nRepublican voters who rely on Apple News for information were fed about five stories per day that negatively portrayed the Republican’s top ten policy priorities, including immigration, law and order, and drug enforcement, according to a report by Media Research Center (MRC).
\n\nThe MRC, which examined Apple News’s top 20 stories from September 15 to 30, added that during that time the app failed to push a single story that positively characterized the GOP’s priorities.
\n\n“Apple News ran 84 negative headlines on Republican priorities and zero positive ones,” MRC President David Bozell said. “Zero! My dentist finds more good news in a root canal.”
\n\n“Millions of voters open that app before they vote, and Apple’s editors are in there like a bartender who waters down only one party’s drinks,” Bozell added. “Come on, Apple, tell us who picks these stories and why Republicans got the whole bad-news buffet.”
\n\nMRC staffers Luis Cornelio and Madison Van Zant, who conducted the study, said the following:
\n\nIn short, Apple News ensured that immigration…
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