The Media Research Center has been portraying Donald Trump as a victim in his New York trial. Another way it has been doing that is by attacking the jurors. Catherine Salgado pushed that attack in an April 17 post:
Five Trump jurors reportedly get their news from a tech giant notorious for its leftist bias.
Fox News released information April 17 on the seven jurors chosen for former President Donald Trump’s supposed “hush money” criminal trial in New York. Answers provided by the jurors reveal five of them receive their news from Google News, which media ratings firm AllSides describes as “lean left.” Two of the jurors also find news on TikTok, the communist Chinese government-tied app currently under scrutiny as a national security risk.
While Fox noted that the jurors were asked questions about their opinion of Trump, they do not seem to have been screened for other types of bias. AllSides, based on independent review and community feedback, rates Google News “lean left” and explains that 63 percent of the tech giant’s news feed sources are leftist.
AllSides has apparently not rated TikTok’s news bias, but the app, which is owned by Chinese ByteDance, is certainly concerning from a national security standpoint.
As we’ve documented, AllSides is not a neutral and objective observer — it’s a right-leaning organization that often parrots MRC narratives about the media, which undercuts Salgado’s claim that it’s “independent.” Salgado continued:
Google might not have direct CCP ties, but its anti-freedom, biased record raises concerns. MRC Free Speech America did a series of bombshell studies exposing Google search results bias in favor of Democrats and against Republicans before the 2022 and 2024 elections. President Joe Biden was among the Democrat candidates favored, while Trump’s website was consistently suppressed. Most recently, a comprehensive MRC study exposed a whopping 41 times Google interfered in U.S. elections since 2008.
Such blatant bias against Trump and other Republicans and Democrats reinforces the argument that Google News is biased and unreliable. It is therefore concerning that five jurors in Trump’s trial source their news from Google.
The MRC’s claims of biased search results for candidates are based on oddly worded searches that no normal human would use. And that “comprehensive MRC study” claiming election interference is a shoddy hit job based on questionable research and inflated numbers.
Salgado also censored the fact that in that Fox News segment — which appeared on the biased show “Outnumbered,” so it’s hardly a legitimate “news” report — it was noted that jurors also cited new sources like Fox News, the New York Post and the Daily Mail, organizations that even AllSides agrees are right-wing. Salgado apparently doesn’t believe it’s “concerning” that jurors receive that kind of right-wing bias in their news.