Apple News drew a sharp rebuke from a Republican senator as the Media Research Center continues to expose the extremely biased digital gatekeeper. 
Speaking from the Senate floor on Thursday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn reiterated her push demanding answers from Apple CEO Tim Cook about “how featured articles on Apple News are chosen, how the company reviews or audits those decisions, and how third-party news outlets can appeal unfair exclusions from its platform.”
Blackburn made the remarks after sending Cook a letter highlighting exclusive MRC research that found Apple News did not publish a single right-leaning article in its top 20 throughout January.
Blackburn challenged Cook to explain to the Senate what decision-making goes into the heavily biased Apple News article rankings.
“Is this subjective?” she asked, reminding listeners that Cook must respond by March 4. “I think it's important to note that Americans increasingly rely on services like Apple News for their information. They deserve to have the point and the counterpoint, to know two sides of the story.”
She expressed her gratitude to President Donald Trump, since he has helped ensure that “the era of Big Tech censorship is drawing to a close, and we are going to continue to fight until these companies abandon their blatant bias and censorship against conservatives.”
In the letter Blackburn referenced, the senator wrote to Cook:
“According to the Media Research Center (MRC), which analyzed over 600 stories featured by Apple News in the morning time slots between January 1 and January 31 of this year, 440 of these were published by left-leaning outlets. A whopping zero stories from outlets considered right-leaning were featured.”
Blackburn’s letter followed a separate warning from Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who wrote to Apple in response to MRC studies, warning that the company could be violating consumer protection laws if Apple News’s terms of service promise unbiased news.
Watch Blackburn’s full remarks below:
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