MRC Studies

In January 2026, Apple News featured 620 top stories but did not include any from right-leaning outlets, instead favoring left-leaning and centrist sources like The Washington Post and Reuters. Critics argue this editorial bias undermines balanced news coverage, especially on topics related to President Trump’s policies.

A study found MSN’s “personalized” news feed heavily favors left-leaning outlets, suggesting 15 left-leaning publishers but only 2 right-leaning ones. Major right-leaning sites like Breitbart and Daily Mail aren’t available to add. Critics say this bias limits user choice and could skew the news people see on a widely used aggregator.

EXCLUSIVE: A new Media Research Center study revealed that the Big Four News Apps relentlessly smeared President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in what amounted to a coordinated campaign of hostile, one‑sided coverage that amplified attacks from leftist broadcast networks.

The Big Four News Apps just completely ignored the March for Life in a blackout so intense that even the pro-life marchers couldn’t find significant related coverage.

ABC and CBS refuse to report on the historic murder rate drop. NBC just airs 8 seconds. 

EXCLUSIVE: December is often marked by celebration. However, for right-leaning media, the month was defined by censorship at the hands of Google News.

Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.

A review of Apple News from Jan. 1–14, 2026, found none of its top 280 stories featured right-leaning outlets, continuing a pattern of left-wing bias and negative Trump coverage. Critics say this editorial approach sidelines conservatives and raises concerns as news aggregators like Apple News become primary news sources in the U.S.

In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 liberal jokes over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two liberal jokes and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS.

EXCLUSIVE: For six weeks, Google News quietly worked to throttle coverage of widespread fraud allegations in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota, an exclusive Media Research Center analysis found.

EXCLUSIVE: The “Big Four News Apps”  (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News) quickly aligned to blame the Trump administration for the Minneapolis ICE shooting that resulted in the death of an anti-Trump activist who was blocking a road.

A Media Research Center study found Apple News did not feature any right-leaning media outlets in its top 20 daily articles for December, highlighting a consistent bias favoring left and center sources. Researchers argue this editorial approach suppresses conservative voices and calls for greater transparency and balance from news aggregators like Apple News.

Even though PolitiFact editor Katie Sanders claimed on PBS on New Year's Eve that they were gut-checking their biases, in fact they were much rougher on the Republicans in 2025 than they were on Democrats -- 85 percent of their GOP checks were "Mostly False" or worse, and only 35 percent of the rarer Democrat fact checks were "Mostly False" or worse.

As part of the elitist liberal media’s campaign to destroy President Trump’s second term by tying him to Jeffrey Epstein and his odious life of sex trafficking minors, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS and NBC have spent a gargantuan 1,033 minutes — or 17 hours and 13 minutes — since July 7 on their flagship morning and evening newscasts and Sunday talk shows seeking to establish an…