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After President Donald Trump's 2024 victory appeared inevitable, tech giants rushed to project a friendlier posture toward him. But behind the scenes, their election meddling continued, most recently surfacing in Republican primaries in the lead-up to the 2026 midterms. 

EXCLUSIVE: The most influential digital news aggregators continue deciding which outlets get seen and who gets ignored. Fresh evidence collected by the Media Research Center further corroborates that left-leaning outlets remain the primary beneficiaries.

Microsoft’s MSN briefly achieved near-perfect news balance over Memorial Day weekend 2026, posting its first neutral Digital News Tracker rating since MRC began monitoring. However, most right-leaning features were non-political, while left-leaning sources dominated political coverage—suggesting apparent neutrality, but ongoing underlying bias.

Website traffic for Newsweek, Al Jazeera, and The Minnesota Star Tribune closely mirrored how often their stories were promoted on top news aggregators—Apple News, Google News, and MSN. When promotion increased, so did traffic; when it dropped, audience numbers also fell, showing the outsized influence these digital gatekeepers have on major media outlets’ visibility.

An award-winning investigative journalist. Four major bombshell reports. Billions of dollars potentially exploited by shady individuals. Allegations of a scheme so sprawling that state officials appear incapable of containing it. A presidential priority with his top officials appointed to end the fraud. And a seemingly unconcerned media and tech cabal burying the news.

EXCLUSIVE: The Big Four News Apps have flooded users with cruise ship headlines tied to hantavirus fears. Missing from any coverage, however, is news that federal immigration officials raided a Disney Cruise Line ship during a child sexual abuse investigation.

The Big Four News Apps—Apple News, Google News, MSN, and Yahoo News—overwhelmingly promote left-leaning sources, creating a digital bias similar to political gerrymandering. Research from MRC shows how these tech giants routinely suppress right-leaning outlets, skewing public perception and limiting balanced coverage for millions of Americans.

EXCLUSIVE: Last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sent the media into a frenzy after comparing their anti-American smears to the Pharisees’ plot against Jesus. His point wasn’t far off, but he left out a key piece: the Big Four News Apps amplified that same narrative.

MRC’s analysis found that Apple News, Google News, Microsoft's MSN, and Yahoo News overwhelmingly promoted left-leaning sources—up to 70% of articles—while right-leaning outlets get as little as 5%. This bias, paired with each app’s vast reach, raises major concerns about media diversity and fair representation in digital news.

EXCLUSIVE: The growing hospice fraud scandal in California could soon derail the presidential ambitions of Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, or at least it looks like that’s what Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo fear. The Big Four might also be protecting the Democrat candidates aiming to replace Newsom as governor in 2026. 

EXCLUSIVE: The Big Four News Apps are controlling the political narrative to help Democrats, and it's working.

EXCLUSIVE: Democrats want Americans to believe President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran were not based on an immediate threat the Islamic regime posed to the Western Hemisphere. Tellingly, the Big Four News Apps appeared eager to amplify that narrative, the Media Research Center can confirm.

President of the Media Research Center David Bozell joined Larry O’Connor on WMAL’s O’Connor & Co. Wednesday morning to deliver a blistering briefing on what he calls a total lack of "rooting for the home team" across the Big Four News Apps, American elitist media establishment, and late-night comedy circuit.

EXCLUSIVE: As Apple News faces relentless criticism for systematically erasing right-leaning sources from its app, Microsoft’s MSN has quietly pulled a similar stunt. But unlike Apple’s brazen elimination of right-leaning outlets, MSN camouflages its censorship behind a thin veil of human interest stories from Fox News.