Apple News continued its defiant stance against offering news from right-leaning outlets through the end of January 2026.
Apple News stubbornly refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026. Of the 620 top stories featured by the news app in the first month of the year, not a single one was from a right-leaning media outlet. 
Rather than promoting news stories from notable right-leaning media sources such as Fox News, the New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart or The Gateway Pundit, Apple News has relentlessly pushed articles from elitist media outlets that amplify the left’s narrative, like: The Washington Post, The Associated Press and NBC News as well as center outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
For the month of January, Apple News published 440 stories from left-leaning outlets. Its favorite leftist outlets were:
- The Washington Post (72)
- The Associated Press (54)
- NBC News (50)
- The Guardian (34)
- The New York Times (30)
- Apple (27)
- NPR (25)
- Politico (19)
- USA Today (16)
- Bloomberg News (15)
Apple News featured headlines in January that broadly focused on President Donald Trump’s foreign policy and immigration policy in negative ways. For example, the news app used a headline from NBC News that read, “Unnerved by Trump, U.S. allies are making nice with China.
Apple News editors turned to The Washington Post more than any other news source, selecting provocative headlines that raised doubts about Trump’s actions. On Trump’s foreign policy, a Washington Post story Apple News promoted had the following headline and subheadline: “Trump weighs imminent Iran strikes, but what’s the mission? The president has sent an ‘armada’ to threaten Iran, but the rationale for a possible military strike keeps changing.” On Trump’s immigration policy, Apple News pushed another piece from The Post, which framed it as, “The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protestors.” Another headline addressed Trump’s response to ICE protests, with Apple News choosing a Post piece explaining the cost of ICE enforcement by proclaiming: “National Guard deployments cost taxpayers almost half a billion dollars.”
While other news aggregators rely on algorithms to compile news from various sources into a single news feed, Apple News editors select stories to compile each day. While a Reuters Institute report noted that the use of online aggregators like the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News), is growing, an Enders Analysis report underscored the potential growth for Apple News in particular as the use of artificial intelligence continues to surge.
Methodology: During the time period Jan. 1 - Jan. 11, 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM ET and the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories between Jan. 12 - Jan. 31, 2026 at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and analyzed the results.
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