In the past week, the Apple News aggregator entirely excluded right-leaning media outlets in its top 20 daily stories.
During the week of Nov. 8-14 Apple promoted articles from NPR, The Washington Post and NBC, but Fox News Digital was notably missing from the Apple News daily lineup. Fox News Digital is the third most-visited news site in America according to Statista's list of “[l]eading global English-language 
news websites” calculated by monthly visits. New York Post and Daily Mail are not far behind. However, not a single Fox News, New York Post or Daily Mail article appeared among the top 20 news articles curated by Apple News editors each day of the week.
News aggregators curate articles from various sources to create a news feed that includes a wide range of outlets.
Of the 140 articles MRC Free Speech America researchers examined, 93 were from outlets rated “left” or “lean-left” by AllSides.
Apple News’ favorite left-leaning outlet during this week was The Washington Post, which it included 18 times. It also included multiple articles from The Guardian, The New Yorker, CNN, USA Today and others.
The closest Apple came to including a right-leaning source was ten articles from The Wall Street Journal, which AllSides rates as “center” for its news reporting and “lean-right” for its opinion section.
MRC Free Speech America previously reported on how the news aggregator promoted an egregious smear piece by The Guardian just minutes after Kirk was shot. The Guardian ran a story calling Charlie a “Trump ally,” while shamelessly including a fundraising blurb at the bottom of the piece asking for money to help the paper not “bow” to President Donald Trump. The Guardian later removed the fundraising section but only after MRC reached out for comment.
Methodology: During the week of Nov. 8 - 14, 2025, MRC researchers examined the top 20 news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM. Researchers then used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” and “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and calculate the results.
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