“In tandem with its keynote at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Yahoo announced ‘News Digest,’ a new iOS app that aggregates, condenses and delivers the day’s top news to users twice a day,” AppleInsider reports.
“News Digest, currently limited to iPhone and iPod touch (pixel doubled on iPad), puts a twist on the two-times-a-day news delivery format that has in some ways been usurped by the Internet’s instant and always-on coverage,” AppleInsider reports. “‘We wanted Yahoo News Digest to revisit a content format that when read, led you to a sense of completion and conclusiveness, much like reading the newspaper did,’ Yahoo’s product manager for mobile and emerging products Nick D’Aloisio wrote in a Tumblr post. D’Aloisio is the creator of Summly, a summarization and artificial intelligence technology used in a corresponding app, which was purchased by Yahoo last year.”
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I’ve made Yahoo my default screen in Safari. However, I must say that the liberal bent on their news is a bit too much for me. It blows CNN and even NPR away in that regard. I suspect that I won’t be bothering to check out this app on the basis of Yahoo news’ coverage.
Please keep in mind that it is always possible that the perceived bias is actually your personal bias in the opposite direction. To others, your personal view of the world may be perceived as a bias.
No, it really is very liberally biased. For example, on a story about minimum wage, 20 links at the bottom of the page were all from the democrat/liberal perspective, 0 conservative.
as usual, not available in the UK, although the founder of the app is British 😡