Silicon Valley’s “Big Four” news apps are “doing the bidding of the Democratic Party” and stacking the deck against President Trump and the GOP during early coverage of November’s midterm elections, a new analysis found.
A whopping 80% of news stories about the Republican primaries promoted by Apple News, Google News, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo News came from lefty media outlets, according to the Media Research Center report, provided exclusively to The Post.
The Virginia-based media watchdog tracked the top 20 morning news stories pushed daily by the online platforms over 100 days, from March 1 to June 8.
In all, 155 of the pieces were about the GOP Congressional primaries and Trump-backed candidates, with a shocking 124 of those pulled from notoriously anti-Trump outlets such as CNN and the New York Times.
In comparison, a measly eight of the stories, or 5%, came from conservative news organizations, the report found. Outlets deemed centrist or without bias accounted for the remaining 23, or 15%.
The news aggregators are not just showing their political slant through the sheer number of left-leaning stories they promote. They selected articles that took extremely partisan stances against Trump and his favored candidates, analysts found.
For example, Google pushed a May 20 article by The Guardian headlined, “Trump’s allies in danger of scraping false hope from Maga victory in Kentucky primary.”
The story alleged the president is “like a cult leader whose commune keeps getting smaller” and that Trump “still rules the Republican party like a mob boss who can get a horse’s head placed in any bed.”
Other stories elevated by the aggregators also reinforced a slimy narrative portraying Trump-backed primary wins as losses, and his endorsements as toxic, the report said. Headlines used loaded language, including terms like “revenge,” “retribution” and “villain” to characterize the president’s role in these races.
For instance, MSN highlighted a May 21 story from The Independent headlined, “Trump got his revenge on ‘disloyal’ Republicans but it could cost him,” which criticized the president for backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for US Senate.
It didn’t matter. Days later, the MAGA conservative defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a primary runoff election.
“Over the first 100 days of GOP primaries, the Silicon Valley tech giants force-fed biased content and smears about Trump and Republican candidates,” the report concluded. “Left-leaning outlets that are reliably doing the bidding of the Democratic Party.”
“As a result, Americans were consistently presented with coverage that portrayed Trump as a villain and his preferred candidates as extremists, while alternative perspectives were largely silenced.”
Of the 70 articles about the Republican midterm primaries Google pushed during the 100 days studied, 57 were published by lefty outlets, compared to a mere three by right-wing outlets, and the rest were written by outlets not determined to have a political slant, according to the MRC report.
Of Apple’s 47 articles, 33 came from lefty sources, while centrist outlets accounted for 10 and right-leaning outets, just three.
MSN promoted 16 stories by lefty news organizations, two by centrist media and one by a right-wing outlet.
Yahoo failed to promote a single right-wing outlet’s articles during the Republican midterm primaries — instead highlighting 18 articles by lefty outlets and one by a centrist publication.
AllSides, a nonpartisan group that classifies news outlets by their political leanings, assisted Media Research Center by determining political media bias for each outlet.
“A rational person might think that Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo would want the perspective of right-leaning outlets for stories about Republican primaries,” said MRC Vice President Dan Schneider.
“It’s pretty obvious that the New York Post, The Dallas Express and The Telegraph would have a better understanding of Republican voters than any of the leftist reporters do at NPR, The New York Times or The Guardian.
“But those elitist media outlets replaced ‘news’ coverage with political spin a long time ago. That’s why the radicals at Apple and Google rely on them so much.”
NYC Councilman Frank Morano said the “old media used to be accused of having a liberal bias,” but “the difference today is that a handful of Silicon Valley algorithms have become the editors of America’s front page.”
“If 80% of the stories being promoted about Republican candidates come from left-leaning outlets, that’s not a marketplace of ideas—it’s an echo chamber,” said the former radio talk-show host and Staten Island Republican.
“Voters deserve to see competing perspectives and reach their own conclusions. The cure for bias isn’t censorship; it’s more balance, more transparency, and more viewpoints.”
“At a time when conservative media is thriving and constantly breaking major news, news aggregators are failing to capture the news Americans trust the most,” said Bernadette Breslin, the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s national press secretary.
“Senate Republicans remain focused on lowering costs and investing in American workers, and voters will reject Democrats and their allies in the media this November.”
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo did not return messages.
