{"id":2588436,"date":"2026-04-08T09:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-news-continued-favoring-far-left-outlets-last-month-after-being-called-out-for-bias\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:27:14","slug":"apple-news-continued-favoring-far-left-outlets-last-month-after-being-called-out-for-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-news-continued-favoring-far-left-outlets-last-month-after-being-called-out-for-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple News Continued Favoring Far-Left Outlets Last Month After Being Called Out for Bias"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fapple-news-continued-favoring-far-left-outlets-last-month-after-being-called-out-for-bias%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=2588436&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>A study by the Media Research Center\u2019s Free Speech America analyzed the top 20 daily stories on the four major news-aggregation apps-Apple News, Google News, Yahoo news, and MSN-for March and found a pronounced left-leaning bias across the board, with Apple News leading in intensity. The findings show Apple News featuring 434 left-leaning articles out of 592 AllSides-rated stories in its morning editions, while Yahoo News had 400, Google News 382, and MSN 226 left-leaning pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Only five conservative-leaning articles appeared on Apple News in March, all from Fox News (a dip from eight in February). The study\u2019s spokesperson argued that Apple News had effectively overtaken Yahoo as the most radical news app, highlighting concerns about how gatekeeping by aggregators shapes what millions see. The piece contends that such curated feeds reinforce bias, limit exposure to opposing viewpoints, and undermine a healthy republic by eroding a shared baseline of reality.  <\/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><\/p>\n<p>If you wanted a clean, data-driven snapshot of America&rsquo;s media imbalance, you could do worse than looking at what&rsquo;s sitting in millions of pockets right now.<\/p>\n<p>A new study comparing the four biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalism-in-the-age-of-bots-wheres-that-news-coming-from-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Journalism in the age of bots: Where\u2019s that news coming from? - Washington Examiner\">news aggregation apps<\/a> &mdash; Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, and MSN &mdash; has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >effectively confirmed longstanding conservative concerns<\/a> that the news landscape was tilting heavily toward leftism and against conservatism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrcfreespeechamerica.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/heather-moon\/2026\/04\/06\/special-report-apple-news-was-most-radical-big-four-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> to the Media Research Center Free Speech America, a study of those &ldquo;big four&rdquo; found that all of them lean heavily toward promoting leftist headlines almost exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>But one of them isn&rsquo;t just tilted. It&rsquo;s practically leaning over. And in a twist that should surprise absolutely no one who&rsquo;s been paying attention, Apple&rsquo;s platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/x-important-apple-news-pushes-almost-exclusively-left-wing-content-excludes-conservative-outlets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once again<\/a> comes out on top as the most aggressively slanted of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>MRC analyzed Apple News&rsquo;s top 20 daily stories each morning in March and measured the bias of the stories it was sourcing by using AllSides.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.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\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \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 #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, MRC reported: &ldquo;Apple News selected articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-wildly-distorts-state-bills-banning-critical-race-theory-claims-republicans-want-to-stop-teaching-slavery-and-racism\/\" title=\"New York Times Wildly Distorts State Bills Banning Critical Race Theory, Claims Republicans Want To Stop Teaching Slavery And Racism\">left-leaning media outlets<\/a> for 434 out of 592 total AllSides-rated stories in the top 20 of its morning editions throughout March.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo News meanwhile featured 400 left-leaning media stories, Google News ran 382 of them, and MSN had 226.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Apple News featured five conservative-leaning articles in all of March &mdash; all from Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular concern, those five articles were actually a <em>dip&nbsp;<\/em>from February, when Apple News posted a mere eight conservative-leaning news stories.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Apple News just took the crown from Yahoo as the most radical news app, even after the FTC delivered an official warning to the company,&rdquo; Dan Schneider, vice president of MRC Free Speech America, said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think Tim Cook is sending a clear message to President Trump and to Chairman Ferguson: Apple is far more interested in pushing radicalism than in providing Americans with balanced news,&rdquo; Schneider added, referring to the Apple CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our nation cannot survive if most voters are being fed propaganda and leftist myths.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Schneider is right, and anybody who&rsquo;s not hopelessly ideological should take note of this and call it out &mdash; as Apple users have <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/250531012?sortBy=rank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been doing for years<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this more than just another media gripe is the sheer scale and subtlety of it. News aggregation apps are ultimately gatekeepers, quietly deciding what millions of people see &mdash; and don&rsquo;t see &mdash; every single day. When that gatekeeping consistently favors one ideological lane, it does nothing more than reinforce bias. Over time, that kind of &ldquo;curation&rdquo; conditions readers far more than it informs.<\/p>\n<p>And that should concern more than just conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>An information ecosystem that overwhelmingly filters out dissenting viewpoints doesn&rsquo;t create smarter, more informed citizens. If you never meaningfully encounter the arguments, priorities, or concerns of the other side, you can&rsquo;t actually understand them. You end up shadowboxing a strawman, one shaped more by friendly headlines than by reality.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s both intellectually lazy&nbsp;<em>and<\/em> strategically foolish. Even from a purely self-interested standpoint, insulating yourself in an echo chamber only makes your views weaker. Ideas sharpen through friction. Without it, they calcify.<\/p>\n<p>If liberals truly believe in the strength of their positions &mdash; and yes, there&rsquo;s ample reason to think they don&rsquo;t &mdash; they should want exposure to competing perspectives, if only to test, refine, and defend their own beliefs against real arguments instead of algorithmically curated ones.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, this isn&rsquo;t about demanding ideological &ldquo;balance&rdquo; for its own sake, or forcing anyone to consume viewpoints they dislike.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s about recognizing that a healthy republic depends on a d baseline of reality &mdash; one that can&rsquo;t exist if the most widely used news platforms are quietly stacking the deck.<\/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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A study by the Media Research Center\u2019s Free Speech America compared the four largest news-aggregation apps-Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, and MSN-and found a strong tilt toward left-leaning headlines across all of them. Using AllSides to gauge bias, the study concluded that Apple News is especially skewed.<\/p>\n<p>Key finding: Apple News topped the list for slant. In March, Apple News selected 434 of 592 AllSides-rated stories in its top-20 daily editions, left-leaning outlets predominating. Yahoo News had 400, Google News 382, and MSN 226. Notably, Apple News posted only five conservative-leaning articles during March, all from Fox News; earlier, in February, it had eight.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Schneider, vice president of MRC Free Speech America, commented that Apple News has become the most radical news app, even after an official FTC warning. He suggested that Apple\u2019s leadership may be signaling a preference for pushing a left-leaning narrative over offering balanced coverage, raising concerns that the nation cannot thrive if voters are repeatedly exposed to propaganda and \u201cleftist myths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The broader point, according to the piece, is that these aggregation apps act as gatekeepers, quietly shaping what millions see or don\u2019t see every day. When this curation consistently favors one ideological lane, it reinforces bias rather than informing readers. That dynamic isn\u2019t a concern only for conservatives: a news ecosystem that filters out dissenting viewpoints can leave people less able to understand opposing arguments. Without meaningful exposure to other perspectives, readers may end up debating strawman versions of issues rather than real ones.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this isn\u2019t just about demanding ideological \u201cbalance\u201d for its own sake. It\u2019s about recognizing that a healthy republic depends on an environment where reality isn\u2019t stacked, and where people are exposed to a range of viewpoints to test and defend their own beliefs against real arguments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2588437,"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\/04\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-04-07T210054.699.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[77388,77390,77389,56439,74069],"class_list":["post-2588436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-apple-news","tag-bias-controversy","tag-far-left-outlets","tag-media-bias-2","tag-tech-news-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ben-Working-Feature-Image-2026-04-07T210054.699.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588436","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=2588436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588440,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588436\/revisions\/2588440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}