Apple News failed to highlight a single right-leaning source for the second week in a row, pushing stories from 82 left-leaning new sites while completely hiding stories from outlets many Americans prefer.
Apple News is one of Big Tech’s new media outlets, pulling together articles from a range of online news sites into a single feed. These cherry-picked articles, however, consistently reflect a leftist bias, suggesting that Apple News is using its reach and power to push a political agenda.
During the week of Nov. 15-21, Apple News published a number of leftist media outlets, including NBC News, Axios and NPR, and passed over top right-leaning media outlets. This comes just one week after MRC Free Speech America researchers exposed Apple News for amplifying 93 stories from the left while completely burying all right-leaning media outlets in its top daily 20 stories.
Fox News Digital is the third most-visited news site in America, according to Press Gazette's monthly ranking of the top 50 news websites, calculated by monthly visits. The New York Post and Daily Mail are also in the top 20 outlets listed. However, not a single Fox News, New York Post or Daily Mail article appeared on Apple News. Nor did Apple News publish a story from any other right-leaning media outlet.
Instead, the news aggregator prominently featured The Washington Post a whopping 21 times. The Post made more appearances than any other outlet and accounted for nearly one-third of the left-leaning stories featured by Apple News during the week.
Other left-leaning outlets that Apple News promoted included New York Magazine, The Guardian and Vox.
Of the 140 stories examined, 82 came from left-leaning outlets and covered stories including debate over releasing the Epstein files, the Ukraine and Gaza peace deals and the various changes President Trump made to tariffs.
MRC Vice President for Free Speech America Dan Schneider commented on the total lack of any right-leaning news articles on Apple News, saying, “Big Tech’s zeal for radicalizing America has no bounds. By selecting the stories that best promote their agenda, these online Goliaths are able to politicize the news even more effectively than the elitist media can do on their own. People look to news aggregators to get some variety and balance in their news. Little do they realize that Apple News only gives one side of the story.”
Methodology: During the week of Nov. 15 - 21, 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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