Apple finally approved an app that tracks drone strikes, then abruptly deleted it

Five years ago, Josh Begley, a data artist and editor at The Intercept, created a straightforward news app for iOS. It sent a push notification to your device each time a U.S. drone strike was reported by a news outlet. SEE ALSO: Here's how you create echo chambers on Facebook There's a map that shows you where the drone strikes occurred and a log that keeps track of each one. And yet, it was censored by Apple for years. Begley attempted to bring Metadata, which was originally called Drones, to the App Store a dozen times.