Apple News failed to link to a single right-leaning media outlet among its top 20 daily articles during the month of December. Out of the 620 opportunities analyzed at approximately 10:00 a.m. each day by the Media Research Center, Apple News whiffed every single time. 
Instead, dozens of times Apple News published articles from leftist outlets like The Washington Post, NBC News and NPR and center outlets like Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC.
You have to go all the way back to Nov. 5 of last year to find the last time Apple News deigned to link to a single right-leaning site. That story was from British outlet The Telegraph covering the atrocities taking place in Sudan: "In Sudan's genocide, Only Those Who Pay Survive." Ironically, Apple hid the article behind the Apple News+ paywall and only paid subscribers could read the full article.
MRC researchers previously exposed Apple News for its blatant bias when in November the app only linked to one article from a right-leaning outlet out of the 560 articles that MRC researchers examined throughout the month.
After reviewing the results through the end of December, it is clear that the omission of right-leaning sources was not accidental. None of the top 20 articles featured by Apple News for the month of December came from a right-leaning media outlet when observed at approximately 10:00 a.m.each day.
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. 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.
Apple News has said that it uses editors to select its top stories, making its overt suppression of right-leaning outlets even more troublesome.
Methodology: During the time period Dec. 1, 2025 - Dec. 31, 2025, MRC researchers examined the top 20 news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM EST. Researchers 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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