# Facebook and Apple Disagree on How to Curb Fake News for U.S. Midterms https://blog.cynexia.com/facebook-and-apple-disagree-on-how-to-curb-fake-news-for-u-s-midterms Author: [Rob Aleck](https://blog.cynexia.com/pages/about) · https://github.com/mnbf9rca · https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaleck/ · https://family-foqos.app/ Published: 2018-07-03 Categories: LinkedIn cross-post It's interesting to see how Apple and Facebook are approaching the problem of "fake news" differently. Facebook is sticking to it's "algorithmic" approach, which i guess would be far more scalable if (and it's a big if) it can be demonstrated to work. Apple's employing more people to review the news that's presented through the hardware/software giant's own apps, teaching us: 1\. the scale of the problem facing Facebook's is simply orders of magnitude larger (Apple only curates content from a chosen set of sources, not any joe schmoe writing a blog), and 2\. Apple's convinced it can avoid human bias, while Facebook believes it can code it out. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/facebook-and-apple-disagree-on-how-to-curb-fake-news-for-u-s-midterms?ahttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/facebook-and-apple-disagree-on-how-to-curb-fake-news-for-u-s-midterms?a]()Apple News launched a human-curated elections section, sparking a debate about tech companies and automation.