Are Apple and Facebook bad for democracy?

We're trying to have a democracy here, and ideally an informed one.Nowadays, however, almost everyone is too distracted with their smartphones to muster the attention span to put up with reading a newspaper or news magazine delivered by a publisher, or even watching TV news.Instead, we get news through apps and on social networks. The biggest source of apps in the U.S. and the biggest social network are Apple's App Store and Facebook, respectively.This trend transfers the job of gatekeeper of wh