Apple News…

[LuFins Dad]

Any other Apple owners notice that the Apple News aggregator leans decidedly left? It’s just an aggregator and pulls items from various news sources and you can control the sources a little by following certain sources, but the choices they give you are decidedly left leaning. HuffPost, Mother Jones, MSNBC, Politico, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone… The only rightward option I can see on there is Fox News. No Daily Wire, Breitbart, NY Post, Washington Times…

[Axtremus]

Maybe a result of self-selection on the supply side: the news publishers whom you consider "right leaning" have mostly chosen not to be on Apple News.

[jon-nyc]

It has the WSJ too.

But I suspect Ax is right. Whomever pays gets on.

[LuFins Dad]

You are both wrong. Apple actually pays them to use the content.

[jon-nyc]

Apparently they share Apple News + revenues (the subscription service).

On the free app they can sell their own ads in their stories and keep 100% of the revenue but don’t get paid.

If they let Apple sell the ads, Apple gives them a cut.

[89th]

Don't think I've ever opened the Apple News thing once, so I'm not sure.

I do enjoy this iPhone 17 pro btw. Great battery, feels nearly the same as my iPhone 12 (I was expecting it to feel bigger/heavier), and the iOS 26 updates are really quite nice overall. The camera zoom is absolutely incredible and I just discovered today the ability to "clean up" a photo by selecting a person in it and making them disappear, back-to-the-future style. Like if you have a random stranger you'd rather not have standing there.