All the news False or fake news are growing exponentially in recent months. The problem is that users are not able to filter what content can be trusted and what is not. That is why awareness campaigns are being carried out, in addition to services such as Facebook that are developing tools that allow scoring the veracity of a news item.
In the case of AppleNews, Apple's news selection service, publishers are responsible for review the arguments of certain news to offer the user news real, away from the popular fake news. Tim Cook assures that these actions help journalism and democracy grow.
Australia as an example of fighting Fake News on Apple News
The study has been carried out by The Sydney Morning Herald, where the Apple News team from Australia. This team is in charge not only of selecting the daily newscast but also of evaluating whether the news is true or not. According to the team, having an application that provides the news of your favorite sections is a double-edged sword. It is not, instead, if you trust that what you are seeing It has been checked and you are sure that what you read is real.
Apple News was born from the need of users to have journalistic content in the palm of their hand since years ago the web pages were not optimized and journalism apps were conspicuous by their absence. However, tools like Apple News are serving as an example to many other platforms.
Disinformation can go so fast and spread so fast that we pride ourselves on not happening. Our motto is that it is better to be precise than first
These words from Lauren Kern, Executive Editor of Apple News Australia, provide insight into fight against fake news in a world where Twitter and other news platforms publish quickly and without prior checks since, in themselves, they are not journalistic media. The editors themselves decide what news should be in Apple News and there are editors from across the political spectrum who are in charge of analyzing the arguments of the different news stories to avoid generalized bias and misinformation.
Tim Cook is aware of this mechanics carried out in Australia and this is confirmed by Roger Rosner, Apple's vice president of applications:
Cook very quickly saw the critical social impact of such endeavors for the value of society. He told us from the beginning that we had to prioritize journalism flourishing, helping democracy in an increasingly challenging world. We are trying, in our own way, on a small scale, to build a bit of a shared reality here and try to repair some of the polarization.