The study exposed apparent rampant bias by digital gatekeepers.
The corporate media organizations featured by Apple News and Google News reportedly have been unable to bring themselves to editorially support a Republican presidential nominee in the last 10 election cycles.
That was the outcome of a Media Research Center (MRC) study obviously going back to 1988.
The most frequently touted publications by Apple and Google include the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times.
The MRC findings include the following revelation:
“The endorsing publications most promoted by Apple News and Google News have exclusively backed Democrats in every presidential election for the past 40 years, with all 31 endorsements going to Democrats and none to Republicans…”
That’s not to say that every GOP standard-bearer was worthy of an endorsement, but you’d think that an occasional Republican might pass muster, or a Democrat would not measure up, but not so.
The Times and WaPo editorial boards led the pack with 10 and 8 Democrat presidential endorsements, respectively, with zero for the GOP.
“Taken together, the headlines of these Democratic endorsements expose the glaring bias of the very newspapers and news sources that Apple News and Google News routinely place in front of millions of users,” MRC asserted.
The Microsoft MSN platform was a slight anomaly, if you can even call it that: “MSN’s top five endorsing outlets backed Democrats 25 times, compared with just two endorsements for a Republican, George H. W. Bush in 1988 and 1992.”
According to MRC, its analysis provides “the latest evidence of the rampant bias plaguing these influential digital news gatekeepers.”
A separate MRC analysis published today found that the Apple newsfeed currently pushes mostly liberal content into iPhone devices:
“…In total, Apple News has only promoted 59 stories (1%) from right-leaning outlets since November 3, 2025. The remaining 27% of the stories were from AllSides-rated center outlets…of the 59 stories from right-leaning outlets, twice as many highlighted controversies involving Trump, Republicans and conservatives compared to the eight that the public would see as victories… ”
Along similar lines, “Google News highlighted opinion pieces that overwhelmingly pushed a leftist narrative and are negative toward right-leaning policies, politicians and people,” MRC claimed on August 14.
According to an article published by the Baltimore Sun, Google has disputed MRC’s methodology, the latter which readers can review and draw their own conclusions.
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