Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Lars Larson Show Thursday evening to drop a bombshell new MRC Free Speech America study exposing how Big Tech algorithms silently shape the news millions of Americans consume.
Bozell broke down a stark reality: when tens of millions of voters glance at their phones every day, the default aggregators (Apple News and Google News) are pushing a heavily stacked deck.
"Americans only know what they are told," Larson noted during the broadcast. "If you could arrange to feed them only certain kinds of information, you could determine the outcome of elections, couldn't you?"
"Look, everyone's got lives, right?" Bozell replied. "If you're the nurse at the graveyard shift or the housing contractor going from job to job, you're just looking at headlines. So we decided to see what headlines these guys are seeing, and where the outlets are coming from on Apple News and Google News."
What MRC Free Speech America uncovered was an astounding partisan tilt.
MRC researchers tracked the top outlets featured on Apple News and Google News back to 1988 to check their presidential endorsement records. The results reveal a completely one-sided slate: not a single one of the top endorsement-issuing outlets promoted by Apple or Google has backed a Republican presidential candidate since 1988.
That is an astonishing 31-0 endorsement streak favoring Democrats across 10 presidential election cycles.
The featured outlets dominating these platforms include The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, and foreign left-wing outfits like The Guardian."
The Guardian... that's a UK paper, very left-wing," Bozell pointed out. "And they are a top-five outlet for both Apple News and Google News. They've endorsed 55 presidential campaigns, and they've endorsed Democrats in each and every one of them."
While left-leaning publications receive non-stop algorithmic promotion, major conservative sources are pushed out of sight. Bozell highlighted how Fox News, the second-most visited news website in the nation, gets virtually no algorithmic assistance from default phone aggregators, while outlets like NPR and Qatar-owned Al Jazeera enjoy prime placement on American screens.
Larson highlighted the absurdity of Big Tech's deliberate blind spot, comparing it to a major retailer deciding to ignore half its potential market. "Why would any business in any kind of field say, 'We only want 50% of the customers?' It'd be like Home Depot selling lumber but no plumbing... except that's not what they're going after."
By gatekeeping the entry points to daily news, tech giants serve up a manufactured left-wing echo chamber right in the palm of your hand instead of a balanced town square.
Watch the entire segment here:
