2026年2月12日 / 美国东部时间下午1:48 / CBS新闻
联邦贸易委员会（FTC）周四向苹果公司首席执行官蒂姆·库克发出警告信，针对Apple News应用提出指控，称该新闻聚合器”系统性地抬高左翼来源、压制右翼来源”。
FTC主席安德鲁·弗格森（Andrew Ferguson）向这家科技巨头的首席执行官发出警告，如果这些指控属实，该公司可能违反《联邦贸易委员会法》——该法律禁止不公平或欺骗性的行为或做法。Apple News应用聚合来自多家数字出版物的新闻故事，以定制符合消费者偏好的内容。
弗格森引用了倾向右翼的监督组织媒体研究中心（Media Research Center）的研究，称以出版物的”感知意识形态或政治观点”为基础展示新闻文章的科技公司可能违反法律。FTC负责人要求苹果公司审查其文章编排方式，并表示如果苹果排除了保守派新闻来源，应”迅速采取纠正措施”。
弗格森在信中写道，排除某些新闻来源的政策”扼杀了思想的自由交流，操纵了公众讨论，与美国价值观相悖”。
苹果公司未立即回应CBS新闻的置评请求。
FTC援引媒体研究中心的一份报告，该报告分析了1月1日至1月31日期间Apple News在用户信息流中展示的600多篇文章。分析发现，Apple News展示的400多篇文章来自被认为偏向左翼的媒体，而被认为偏向右翼的新闻来源未出现在用户的数字新闻信息流中。
媒体研究中心表示，其依靠AllSides公司（一家对在线出版物的政治偏见进行评级的公司）来确定新闻来源的立场。
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弗格森还辩称，如果苹果公司不向消费者披露可能”造成实质性损害，且无法合理避免或被对消费者或竞争的反制益处所抵消”的做法，可能违反其自身的服务条款。
不过，FTC负责人指出，该机构”不是言论警察”。
弗格森补充道：”我们没有权力要求苹果或任何其他公司在任何政治问题上表明明确立场，也无权按照某种意识形态或另一种意识形态来编排新闻内容。”
但他指出，该机构得到国会授权，确保消费者免受”实质性误报和遗漏的侵害，包括当向消费者提供的产品或服务是与言论相关的产品时”。
编辑：艾米·皮基（Aimee Picchi）
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- 蒂姆·库克
FTC warns Apple’s Tim Cook over alleged political bias in its Apple News app
February 12, 2026 / 1:48 PM EST / CBS News
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sent a warning letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook about Apple News, pointing to reports claiming the news aggregator “systematically boosts left-wing sources and suppresses right-wing sources.”
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson alerted the tech giant’s chief executive that, if the allegations are true, the company could be violating the FTC Act, a law that prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices. The Apple News app aggregates news stories from a range of digital publications to curate content tailored to consumers’ preferences.
Ferguson, who cited research from the Media Research Center, a right-leaning watchdog group, said that tech companies that feature news articles based on a publication’s “perceived ideological or political viewpoint” may violate the law. The FTC chief asked Apple to review its article curation and “take corrective action swiftly” if it is excluding conservative news sources.
Policies that exclude some news sources “stifle the free exchange of ideas, manipulate the public discourse and are inconsistent with American values,” Ferguson wrote.
Apple did not immediately respond to CBS News’ request for comment.
The FTC cited a report from the Media Research Center that analyzed more than 600 stories featured by Apple News in users’ feeds from Jan. 1 to Jan. 31. The analysis found that more than 400 of the stories Apple News featured came from outlets perceived to be left-leaning, and that news sources perceived to be right-leaning did not appear in users’ digital news feeds.
The Media Research Center says it relies on AllSides, a company that rates the perceived political bias of online publications, for determining a news source’s perspective.
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Ferguson also argued that Apple may be violating its own terms and conditions of service if it doesn’t disclose to consumers practices that could “cause substantial injury that is neither reasonably avoidable nor outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or competition.”
Nevertheless, the FTC chief noted that the agency “is not the speech police.”
“[W]e do not have authority to require Apple or any other firm to take affirmative positions on any political issue, nor to curate news offerings consistent with one ideology or another,” Ferguson added.
But, he noted, the agency has a mandate from Congress to ensure that consumers are protected from “material misrepresentations and omissions, including when the product or service offered to consumers is a speech-related product.”
Edited by Aimee Picchi
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