The Politics channel

What you hear

Public posts about politics: wires, statehouses and both sides of the aisle. News wires and official sources come first, with nonpartisan analysis and opinion from more than one side.

Politics only plays when you ask for it. It is never part of Frequo Mix. Tune to it with the button on this page.

How it picks posts

Opinion accounts are marked "Opinion" on screen, so you always know when you are hearing a view and not a report.

Wires and official sources get a lift. Opinion is spread out and balanced: it avoids playing the same side twice in a row.

No candidate or campaign accounts are on the channel. Posts about how, when or where to vote only play from news wires and official election offices.

Frequo picks the accounts, and each one passes its checks first: public, posting in English, mostly on the channel's topic, on X for at least a year and posting between 1 and 30 times a day.

New posts are checked by moderation before a voice reads them, and anything unclear waits for a person.

A post has to make sense when you only hear it. Posts under 6 words, under 12 with a picture, a video or a quote too long to read, posts that lead into a picture you cannot see, and short posts that only point somewhere else are left out.

Who it is for

People who want to hear the political news of the day from the sources, and hear more than one side, without an algorithm deciding they only want one.

How it behaves

Press play and it keeps going, one post after another. Each clip starts with the account's name, then the post, read word for word by a labelled AI voice. Nothing is summarized or rewritten.

• Skip moves on to the next post. Free has 8 skips a day, and Pro has no limit.
• Previous goes back one post. The lock screen and headset buttons can play, pause, skip and go back.
• A post is never cut off halfway. A post too long to read in full is left out instead.
• Links are not read out, other than a plain address like example.com, and pictures and videos are not described. The player shows the full post with a link to the original on X.
• Posts and their audio are deleted 24 hours after they were posted, and sooner if they are deleted or made private on X.
• If you follow political accounts that are on Frequo, they play in your Following channel too. You can switch that off in the Tuner.
• When there is nothing new left, it says "You're caught up on Politics. Here's Frequo Mix." and switches to Frequo Mix. Tune back in later for new posts.

The Tuner sets the speed, the pause between posts, an ambient bed under the voice, the voice itself and a sleep timer.