Apple News has continued its apparent boycott of right-leaning outlets into December.
MRC researchers exposed Apple News’s blatant bias against right-leaning media outlets in November, and a review of stories selected by Apple News editors each morning for the first two weeks of December revealed that its censorship has continued. None of the top 20 articles featured by Apple News for the first two weeks of December came from a right-leaning media outlet. Instead, the aggregator’s editors chose stories from left-leaning outlets such as The Washington Post, NBC and National Public Radio (NPR), as well as outlets rated politically center by AllSides like The Wall Street Journal’s news section, the BBC and Reuters. 
Among the most radically left-wing outlets picked to top the Apple News feed the first two weeks in December were NPR, promoted 15 times, and The Guardian, elevated twelve times.
Apple News promoted NPR stories with clear leftist agendas portrayed in headlines like: “HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait” and “For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day.” Meanwhile, Apple News editors chose articles from The Guardian that included headlines such as “‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE” and “Hegseth gives defiant speech defending ‘drug boat’ strikes amid scrutiny.”
Apple News also produced some of its own original reporting under outlet names such as Apple News Today, Apple in Conversation and Apple News Spotlight. At least one Apple News-created article was featured each day of the week, except for on Dec. 7 and Dec. 14 .
The articles written by Apple News staff were overwhelmingly political in nature, with 10 of the 16 posted referencing President Donald Trump, a Trump cabinet official or a Trump action. The articles covered topics such as the Tennessee re-disctricting fight, Trump’s foreign policy, the Trump administration’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and even GOP criticism, or MAGA support, of Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Several of the articles were blatant anti-Trump screeds, with headlines like “The affordability problem Trump can’t escape,” “Trump’s personal mortgages, new Epstein photos - and more of the week’s most-read politics stories” and “Why Trump has stayed loyal to Hegseth as GOP criticism mounts.”
News aggregators, which are tools or platforms that gather articles from multiple media sources into a single place either through algorithmic selection or human curation, are a growing source for people to get their news from. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.
The growing use of news aggregators makes obvious bias in aggregators’ feeds an egregious manipulation, especially without disclosure of its methods and reasons for selection. Apple News explains that it uses editors to select its top stories, making its overt suppression of right-leaning outlets even more troublesome.
Including reporting from November, MRC researchers have documented 42 days of Apple News stories amounting to 840 total headlines. Of these, only one article was from a right-leaning outlet. The one article was about the Sudanese genocide of Christians and other non-Arabs, a topic the elitist media have largely neglected, and came from British outlet The Telegraph.
Methodology: During the time period Dec. 1 - 14, 2025, MRC researchers examined the top 20 news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM EST. Researchers then used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and analyzed the results.
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