{"id":2569238,"date":"2026-02-12T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-x-is-so-important-apple-news-pushes-almost-exclusively-left-wing-content-excludes-conservative-outlets\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:13:31","slug":"why-x-is-so-important-apple-news-pushes-almost-exclusively-left-wing-content-excludes-conservative-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-x-is-so-important-apple-news-pushes-almost-exclusively-left-wing-content-excludes-conservative-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why X is So Important: Apple News Pushes Almost Exclusively Left-Wing Content, Excludes Conservative Outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-x-is-so-important-apple-news-pushes-almost-exclusively-left-wing-content-excludes-conservative-outlets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2569238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The piece argues that Apple News presents a left-leaning, biased snapshot of the news. Citing a Media Research Center analysis, it claims that in January there wasn\u2019t a single conservative-pleasant outlet among Apple News\u2019s top 20 morning stories, with 620 stories chosen overall and 440 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msm-falsely-accuses-oan-of-russian-propaganda-ignores-facts-attacks\/\" title=\"MSM falsely accuses OAN of \u2018Russian propaganda\u2019, ignores facts attacks\">left-leaning outlets<\/a>, while conservative sources such as Fox News, the New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart, Daily Caller, and Western Journal were absent. the article contends that editors, not algorithms alone, curate the feed and that the result is a uniformly liberal narrative that frames topics like Trump\u2019s foreign policy and immigration enforcement negatively.<\/p>\n<p>The author contrasts this with open platforms like X (Twitter), arguing that true free speech is better served by a more unfiltered environment, though acknowledging that X can be messy. The piece suggests conservatives have built option systems in response too what it sees as mainstream media gatekeeping and calls readers to consider different media ecosystems. It also weaves in the author\u2019s personal criticisms of Apple products and the News app, treating the perceived bias as part of a broader critique of Big tech and establishment media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Most Americans assume that when they open a news aggregation app, they are seeing a broad snapshot of the world.<\/p>\n<p>They assume someone, somewhere, is at least attempting balance.<\/p>\n<p>A Media Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/mrcfreespeechamerica.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/heather-moon\/2026\/02\/04\/apple-news-continues-rejection-right-leaning-outlets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> says that is not what is happening on Apple News.<\/p>\n<p>According to its January analysis, Apple News did not feature a single conservative-friendly outlet among its top 20 morning stories for the entire month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >popular news app aggressively promotes articles<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/medias-coverage-of-crises-under-biden-would-look-a-lot-different-if-trump-were-in-office\/\" title=\"Media\u2019s Coverage of Crises Under Biden Would Look A Lot Different If Trump Were In Office\">left-leaning news outlets<\/a>, while it shuts out conservative sources, according to an explosive MRC report. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxBusiness?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxBusiness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeSpeechAmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FreeSpeechAmer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5RXVNj6tn3\">https:\/\/t.co\/5RXVNj6tn3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMRC\/status\/2021574560764625250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\")); 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>In fact, out of 620 featured stories, zero came from conservative publishers.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing from Fox News, The New York Post, The Daily Mail, Breitbart, or The Daily Caller. There was nothing from The Western Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the feed was dominated by legacy outlets that always tend to reflect the left&rsquo;s worldview.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post alone appeared more than 70 times.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press and NBC News weren&rsquo;t far behind the failing newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian, The New York Times, NPR, Politico, USA Today, and Bloomberg filled out the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Apple News pushed 440 stories from left-leaning outlets in January. The remainder came from sources deemed &ldquo;independent.&rdquo; There was no ideological diversity, and every narrative went in one predictable direction.<\/p>\n<p>Apple News is, of course, not run entirely by some blind algorithm that scoops up random and hot headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Human editors play a hand in selecting the stories users see each morning.<\/p>\n<p>Those human editors chose 620 stories, and users of the app saw negative stories that painted President Donald Trump&rsquo;s foreign policy as unstable.<\/p>\n<p>Those stories painted immigration enforcement as evil. Readers were reminded of the high cost of National Guard deployments tied to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>There was no conservative counterpoint, and they offered only one way to interpret the events.<\/p>\n<p>I use Apple products every day, although I wish I didn&rsquo;t have to. I think they make some of the best devices in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But I delete the News app the moment I set up a new phone. It&rsquo;s garbage. The few times I have ever opened it, I knew what I was seeing.<\/p>\n<p>It is like the post-2016 Drudge Report.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the marriage between Big Tech and legacy media looks like when it goes unchecked. It is all liberal nonsense, all the time. There is no dissent, no room for questions, and nothing is to be challenged.<\/p>\n<p>People love to mock X for being messy, which it is. The place is like the Wild West some days.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you will see nonsense on X. You will see exaggerations, and clickbait, and the occasional AI fake.<\/p>\n<p>But that is speech that is open and free. It is not someone else&rsquo;s job to hold your hand through the internet to tell you what is real and what is not real.<\/p>\n<p>Information on X is presented as-is, without a corporate filter that decides what you are allowed to see.<\/p>\n<p>The platform is vastly different from what it was before Elon Musk bought it in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Before that purchase, Twitter suspended people for sharing legitimate reporting about Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t until the platform, which also banned a sitting U.S. president, was rebranded with a new name and mission that we saw what truly free and open news for the masses looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how many stories you never encountered when the print &mdash; and later digital &mdash; gatekeepers were in charge of the information. Imagine how many viewpoints were filtered out before many people even knew they existed.<\/p>\n<p>That is why conservatives built our own systems.<\/p>\n<p>It is why X matters. Apple News is what all news apps would look like if most Silicon Valley players and establishment media reporters and editors had their way.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an iPhone, I suggest you open it for a look at what the liberals in your life are reading. Their Bloomberg-approved lack of insight and tolerance might start to make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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It found that none of the top 20 morning stories came from conservative-leaning outlets, suggesting Apple News promotes left-leaning sources while excluding conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>In January, out of 620 featured stories, not one came from Fox News, The New York Post, The Daily Mail, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, or The Western Journal. The feed was instead dominated by legacy outlets that tend to reflect a liberal worldview, with The Washington Post appearing more than 70 times, and The Associated Press and NBC News also frequent. Overall, about 440 stories came from left-leaning outlets, with the rest labeled as \u201cindependent.\u201d The analysis argued there was no ideological diversity and that the narrative moved in a single direction.<\/p>\n<p>The piece notes that Apple News isn\u2019t driven solely by a neutral algorithm; human editors select the stories. According to the article, those editors chose 620 stories that January, and the coverage framed Donald Trump\u2019s foreign policy as unstable and portrayed immigration enforcement as evil, highlighting the high costs of deploying the National Guard. The author then shares a strongly negative personal view of Apple News, calling the app \u201cgarbage\u201d and likening it to a biased, post-2016 media landscape dominated by liberal perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>The author contrasts this with free-speech ideas on X (formerly Twitter), arguing that the platform allows unfiltered expression, unlike curated news feeds. They argue conservatives created alternative systems because mainstream gatekeepers suppress other viewpoints, and they suggest readers examine what liberals read to understand the worldview at play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2569239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Why-we-need-X.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[73664,73666,73665,36255],"class_list":["post-2569238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-applenews","tag-conservativeoutlets","tag-leftwingcontent","tag-mediabias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Why-we-need-X.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569242,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569238\/revisions\/2569242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}