The Media Research Center has long targeted Google News for failing to be far-right enough. It’s also applying that same rhetoric at Apple News. Heather Moon groused in a Nov. 17 post:
In the past week, the Apple News aggregator entirely excluded right-leaning media outlets in its top 20 daily stories.
During the week of Nov. 8-14 Apple promoted articles from NPR, The Washington Post and NBC, but Fox News Digital was notably missing from the Apple News daily lineup. Fox News Digital is the third most-visited news site in America according to Statista’s list of “[l]eading global English-language news websites” calculated by monthly visits. New York Post and Daily Mail are not far behind. However, not a single Fox News, New York Post or Daily Mail article appeared among the top 20 news articles curated by Apple News editors each day of the week.
News aggregators curate articles from various sources to create a news feed that includes a wide range of outlets.
Of the 140 articles MRC Free Speech America researchers examined, 93 were from outlets rated “left” or “lean-left” by AllSides.
As we’ve noted, AllSides has a decided right-wing bias that the MRC loves.
Moon returned to rant in a Nov. 25 post:
Apple News failed to highlight a single right-leaning source for the second week in a row, pushing stories from 82 left-leaning new sites while completely hiding stories from outlets many Americans prefer.
Apple News is one of Big Tech’s new media outlets, pulling together articles from a range of online news sites into a single feed. These cherry-picked articles, however, consistently reflect a leftist bias, suggesting that Apple News is using its reach and power to push a political agenda.
During the week of Nov. 15-21, Apple News published a number of leftist media outlets, including NBC News, Axios and NPR, and passed over top right-leaning media outlets.
[…]Fox News Digital is the third most-visited news site in America, according to Press Gazette’s monthly ranking of the top 50 news websites, calculated by monthly visits. The New York Postand Daily Mail are also in the top 20 outlets listed. However, not a single Fox News, New York Post or Daily Mail article appeared on Apple News. Nor did Apple News publish a story from any other right-leaning media outlet.
Instead, the news aggregator prominently featured The Washington Post a whopping 21 times. The Post made more appearances than any other outlet and accounted for nearly one-third of the left-leaning stories featured by Apple News during the week.
[…]MRC Vice President for Free Speech America Dan Schneider commented on the total lack of any right-leaning news articles on Apple News, saying, “Big Tech’s zeal for radicalizing America has no bounds. By selecting the stories that best promote their agenda, these online Goliaths are able to politicize the news even more effectively than the elitist media can do on their own. People look to news aggregators to get some variety and balance in their news. Little do they realize that Apple News only gives one side of the story.”
Little does Schneider know that right-wing media like the sites he demands Apple News promote only one side of the story. And how, exactly, is the Washington Post “radicalizing” anyone? He doesn’t explain.
Moon returned to rage at Apple News In a Dec. 11 post:
Apple News should come with a warning label disclosing its radical leftist bias. In November, its editors chose only one article from a right-leaning source, and that source wasn’t even an American outlet.
MRC Free Speech America researchers began documenting the stories and outlets featured by Apple News in its top 20 stories each morning on Nov. 3, 2025. Human editors select the top stories on Apple News, which sets it apart from some competing Big Tech news aggregators that rely on automated algorithms, as reported by news outlets including the leftist New York Times.
Apple News’s direct control of its top stories exposes the platform’s bias, especially since only one of the 560 articles examined in November came from a right-leaning source. Seemingly adding insult to injury, the single story came from “lean right,” British outlet The Telegraph.
Notice how Moon changed her descriptions here — right-wing sources are merely “right-leaning,” while non-right-wing sources are “radical leftist.” She kept up that bias in a Dec. 16 post:
Apple News has continued its apparent boycott of right-leaning outlets into December.
MRC researchers exposed Apple News’s blatant bias against right-leaning media outlets in November, and a review of stories selected by Apple News editors each morning for the first two weeks of December revealed that its censorship has continued. None of the top 20 articles featured by Apple News for the first two weeks of December came from a right-leaning media outlet. Instead, the aggregator’s editors chose stories from left-leaning outlets such as The Washington Post, NBC and National Public Radio (NPR), as well as outlets rated politically center by AllSides like The Wall Street Journal’s news section, the BBC and Reuters.
Among the most radically left-wing outlets picked to top the Apple News feed the first two weeks in December were NPR, promoted 15 times, and The Guardian, elevated twelve times.
Moon failed to explain how, exactly, either NPR or the Guardian are “radically left-wing.” Still, Moon whined in a Jan. 9 post:
Apple News failed to link to a single right-leaning media outlet among its top 20 daily articles during the month of December. Out of the 620 opportunities analyzed at approximately 10:00 a.m. each day by the Media Research Center, Apple News whiffed every single time.
Instead, dozens of times Apple News published articles from leftist outlets like The Washington Post, NBC News and NPR and center outlets like Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC.
You have to go all the way back to Nov. 5 of last year to find the last time Apple News deigned to link to a single right-leaning site. That story was from British outlet The Telegraph covering the atrocities taking place in Sudan: “In Sudan’s genocide, Only Those Who Pay Survive.” Ironically, Apple hid the article behind the Apple News+ paywall and only paid subscribers could read the full article.
Moon complained some more in a Jan. 19 post:
After a dismal record to close out 2025, Apple News has unfortunately shown renewed commitment to left-wing bias in the first two weeks of 2026.
Apple News did not use a single right-leaning outlet among its top 20 articles in its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 14, 2026. Apple News continued its streak of completely excluding right-leaning media outlets across its 280 top stories.
Instead of highlighting news stories from popular right-leaning outlets such as Fox News or the New York Post, Apple News has consistently published articles from leftist, elitist media outlets like The Associated Press, The Washington Post and NBC News as well as center outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
Again, Moon failed to explain how non-right-wing outlets she doesn’t like are “leftist and “elitist” while right-wing outlets are merely “right-leaning” or how the clearly right-wing Wall Street Journal is somehow “center.”