The app’s robot curator chose a third of its content from just two sources: CNN and Fox News
When algorithms replace humans in charge of editing news, they tend to select more stories about celebrities from a less diverse selection of publications, according to research.
Jack Bandy and Nicholas Diakopoulos of Northwestern University in the United States analysed Apple News over a two-month period from mid-March, collecting every headline published in two sections of the popular and influential news app: Top Stories, which contains content selected by a team of human editors employed by Apple; and Trending, which contains stories selected by the company’s proprietary algorithm.
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