Larry Elder buys into right-wing claims of media bias in his May 21 WorldNetDaily column:
News aggregators like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, TikTok and YouTube now serve as primary news conveyors and deliver the news feeds that pop up on smartphones. As aggregators, they select stories from news outlets and serve them to consumers based on what the platforms think users want to see.
This means the aggregators increasingly prioritize stories that reinforce a user’s preexisting worldview. Their goal is to keep the user glued to the phone. The best way to do this is to tell people what they want to hear and give “news” that confirms what they already believe. And that’s the problem: People increasingly consume information that confirms their beliefs instead of challenging them.
AllSides is a company that measures media bias, whether from the left or the right. This is from a recent analysis:
“AllSides conducted news aggregator bias analyses in late 2025. Among the most biased remain Google News and Apple News – in 2025, Google News (Lean Left) curated 73% of articles from outlets with a bias on the left and just 1% of articles from outlets on the right. Apple News(Lean Left) curated 50% from the left and just 2% from the right.
“Most news aggregators curate primarily from media outlets with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left or Left. Our 2025 analyses found that most curate less than 10% of articles from news outlets rated Lean Right or Right. Aggregators tend to source from legacy media outlets that Americans and expert bias reviewers on average rate Lean Left or Left, like CNN (Lean Left), AP (Left bias), and The New York Times (Lean Left).”
As we’ve documented, AllSides has a clear right-leaning bias, meaning that its ratings are questionable — particularly its portrayal of mainstream media outlets like the AP as “left.”
Elder’s column was also published by the Media Research Center, which has made extensive use of AllSides to perpetuate its war on non-right-wing news media and news aggregators.