The Algorithm Has an Opinion — And It Isn’t Neutral.

Here is a small, sturdy fact that ought to bother more people than it does: the news that lands in your pocket every morning was not chosen by you. It was chosen for you, by an algorithm at Apple or a formula at Google, and lately those choices have had a shape. A political shape. The Media Research Center has been at this for months now, and the pattern holds up story after story. When a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine turned out to have a Nazi-linked tattoo and a Reddit history nobody wanted to explain, Apple News and Google


