Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less "soft news" (Grzegorz Piechota/INMA)

Grzegorz Piechota / INMA:
Research comparing curation by humans and algorithms on Apple News shows that human editors chose more diverse sources, more evenly, and less “soft news”  —  Two Northwestern University researchers audited two Apple News sections: one curated by editors and one by an algorithm.

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