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How Apple News and other tech giants change the narrative for Democrats

Remember that time before the 2020 election when everyone was focused on social media election interference?

Including the fact that The New York Post had our accounts locked and our stories suppressed.

One of the results of all that was Elon Musk buying Twitter in an effort to rebalance the social media landscape.

Because everyone knew that Twitter, like that dumpster-fire called Wikipedia, was insanely politically partisan.

But there is just as much election interference going on now.

And it is time the Republican Party got on top of it.

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Not least if they want to have a fair run in the midterms.

Because as anyone who uses social media will know there is still a lot of funny-business going on.

Where there was once flagrant distortion of the news, a number of the Big Tech companies are now doing things in a far more subtle and insidious way.

For months I’ve been wondering why Apple keeps pushing me stories I have absolutely no desire to read.

Why does it keep offering me stories from the Guardian, BBC and other left-wing news-sites?

Why is Apple so intent on pushing me stories from the Huffington Post?

A left-leaning blog no one has read, or heard from, in years.

Come to think of it, why does Apple keep pushing a lifestyle magazine for the over-50s onto me?

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