So this morning, on Apple’s newsfeed, the “politics” section featured five stories, all of which were negative attacks on the Trump campaign. Of course, the culprits were the usual suspects: Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast. The latter two seem to make Trump bashing their reason d’etre, and Rolling Stone(d) just can’t seem to stay in their lane, suddenly suspecting they’re political pundits when they can barely manage substantive reporting on the music industry. And shame on Apple. With a recent mea culpa from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, admitting that his organization engaged in censorship by suppressing favorable stories on Republican candidates at the behest of the Biden Administration, we have to suspect that propagandizing is rampant in the tech industry and Apple is probably guilty of tipping the scales as well. There are 153 million iPhones in circulation in the United States, and users, especially youth, get their news from sources like Facebook, TikTok, and Apple. With so much attention lavished on preposterous Russia collusion accusations, we should probably take a closer look at organizations seeking to influence the election closer to home.
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