Should Americans celebrate free speech? Anthropic and Google’s artificial intelligence models couldn’t bring themselves to provide a definitive answer, as the nation marks Free Speech Week. 

A new Media Research Center analysis found that Apple News has been targeting GOP issues with negative coverage, raising the question: Is Apple engaging in election interference in the lead-up to the midterms?

A recent analysis found Apple News heavily favors left-leaning sources, featuring 67% of stories from left-leaning outlets and only 2% from right-leaning ones in October 2026. Even among right-leaning stories, many were critical of conservatives, maintaining Apple's pattern of strong anti-conservative bias under new CEO John Ternus.

Fresh off an analysis showing that Apple News repeatedly promoted negative headlines about Republican-aligned issues, a new MRC analysis found that the negative framing extended to headlines that directly mention President Donald Trump. From Oct. 1 through Oct. 28, MRC reviewed Apple News’s top 20 stories and found 96 stories in total with Trump’s name in headlines: 49 headlines framed Trump…

Forty-five-to-one. That is the ratio of negative to positive headlines about President Donald Trump among the top 20 stories Google News promoted from Oct. 1 through Oct. 28, in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, according to a new Media Research Center analysis.

As voters in at least six states decide on whether to require voter ID to vote this election day, ChatGPT was the only artificial intelligence model to affirmatively state, “No” to a photo ID requirement, when a majority of Americans have said it should be required to vote in elections.

Peggy Flanagan, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Minnesota and current lieutenant governor, appears to be the latest Democratic candidate whose scandals and controversies are nowhere to be seen across the influential news feeds of Apple News and Google News. A new analysis by the Media Research Center found that news-aggregating sites have failed to promote any of the dozens of…

A Media Research Center study finds Apple News and Google News heavily favor left-leaning and high "reliability"-rated outlets, based on Ad Fontes, NewsGuard, and AllSides data. Right-leaning and centrist sites appear far less often in news app top stories than expected, raising concerns about lack of balanced coverage on major news aggregators.

Apple News, one of the most influential digital news aggregation apps, failed to promote stories about one of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) largest financial crises in its history despite the national implications of the matter.

Since John Ternus became Apple CEO, Apple News has increased promotion of left-leaning stories and decreased right-leaning stories, featuring only 0.5% from right-leaning outlets in September, down from 2% in August. Unlike its competitors, Google News and MSN, Apple has become more politically biased, leading to criticism for limiting conservative perspectives.

One of President Donald Trump’s major focuses has been rooting out fraud across taxpayer-funded public services. Through their White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, Co-chairs Vice President JD Vance and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson have touted unprecedented efforts to expose and crack down on massive instances of fraud since February 2026.

MRC researchers found ChatGPT initially refused to provide or acknowledge a Fox News article reporting its comparison of Trump to Hitler, raising concerns of AI bias and censorship. Despite repeated prompts, ChatGPT only later provided a link, fueling claims that OpenAI suppresses conservative viewpoints ahead of the 2026 elections.

A Media Research Center analysis found that major news apps—Apple News, Google News, MSN, and Yahoo News—promoted left-leaning outlets 68% of the time in morning coverage from late 2025 to mid-2026, while right-leaning sources made up just 5%, highlighting significant bias as voters rely on these digital aggregators for news heading into the midterm elections.

AI models count President Donald Trump as among the greatest threats to democracy, putting him just a small step below Hitler—but only because American institutions have “constrained” him.