I've also verified this for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and it too passed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT
ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 11:04:56 PDT 19h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:46:33 PDT 44s ago
motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED
UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 23:10:07 PDT 15h left Wed 2019-07-17 06:50:12 PDT 55min ago
motd-news.timer motd-news.service
1 timers listed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ ls -lh /var/cache/motd-news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 Jul 17 06:50 /var/cache/motd-news
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
Installed: 10.1ubuntu2.5
** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-disco
** Tags added: verification-done-bionic verification-done-disco
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motd [on at least some instances] does not auto-update daily
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