The Media Research Center kept up its rage against Apple News for not being right-wing enough in a Feb. 4 post by Heather Moon:
Apple News continued its defiant stance against offering news from right-leaning outlets through the end of January 2026.
Apple News stubbornly refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026. Of the 620 top stories featured by the news app in the first month of the year, not a single one was from a right-leaning media outlet.
Rather than promoting news stories from notable right-leaning media sources such as Fox News, the New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart or The Gateway Pundit, Apple News has relentlessly pushed articles from elitist media outlets that amplify the left’s narrative, like: The Washington Post, The Associated Press and NBC News as well as center outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
Nnote that Moon would only describe right-wing outlets benignly as “right-leaning,” while non-right-wing outlets get biased terms like “elitist” or “the left.” Instead, she whines: “Apple News editors turned to The Washington Post more than any other news source, selecting provocative headlines that raised doubts about Trump’s actions.” Moon didn’t explain how, exactly, those doubts weren’t warranted.
Moon went on to brag: “This study was shared by President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, X owner Elon Musk, the New York Post, Fox Business and more.”
The MRC’s nepo-baby leader complained in a Feb. 9 post:
A new Media Research Center study is raising fresh concerns about how Apple News curates information for millions of Americans, and MRC President David Bozell says the implications stretch far beyond media bias.
In a Friday interview on The Derek Hunter Show on WMAL radio, Bozell pointed to Apple’s own admission that its news curation relies heavily on human editors rather than neutral algorithms. “Apple publicly acknowledged that its curation system is human driven,” Bozell explained. “There’s a lot of editorial decision making going on at Apple, certainly a lot more than some of the others.”
According to the MRC study, Apple News continues to sideline right-leaning outlets while elevating leftist media sources in its daily national headlines. Bozell noted that although users can technically customize their feeds, the practical options are limited. “You are subject to the digital subscribers that Apple provides,” he said, adding that “the right wing ecosystem that exists to subscribe to on Apple is almost non-existent.”
[…]For Bozell, the study is a call to action for conservatives to demand fair treatment — or begin building alternative media ecosystems of their own.
It wasn’t explained why right-wingers are entitled to put their biased narratives among unsuspecting citizens.
A couple days later, Bozell went on the radio show of an old MRC friend:
Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show today to reveal new findings from MRC Free Speech America’s Digital News Tracker, showing Apple News’ continued tilt toward left-leaning outlets and complete exclusion of right-leaning sources.
Bozell explained that Apple News, along with Google News, Yahoo News, and MSN News — the “Big Four” news aggregation platforms — plays an outsized role in shaping how Americans consume headlines.
“These apps have been relative blind spots for the conservative movement, and we figured out a way through our new Digital News Tracker to quantify just how left-leaning all these news apps have really been,” Bozell said.
Again, no proof is given for this claim. There’s also no analysis of individual stories, just judgment over outlets as defined by AllSides, which has a decided right-wing bias that the MRC loves.
Moon and Michael Morris came back for a Feb. 13 article:
Just two days after Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson wrote a warning letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook in response to a bombshell report by the Media Research Center, Apple News hit a dubious milestone: 100 days to highlight a single article from a right-leaning outlet in its morning editions.
It took 100 days for Apple News to promote an article from a right-leaning media source. It has published 1,379 stories from left-leaning outlets in that same time period. Only after the story went viral yesterday, following numerous MRC studies, did Apple News finally publish a right-leaning article from Fox News. Tellingly, the article — headlined “James Van Der Beek’s death highlights alarming colon cancer rise in younger adults” — steered clear of politics completely.
On Nov. 5, 2025, Apple News editors last selected a story from a right-leaning outlet, the London-based The Telegraph, about the Sudanese genocide. To make matters worse, the article was placed behind the Apple News+ subscription service that requires users to pay in order to read the article.
Yet again, it wasn’t explained why, aside from ideology, right-wing outlets deserved to be in Apple News.
The same day, Tim Graham gushed on his podcast about the reach his employer’s biased study received:
Plus: On Wednesday, President Trump posted our MRC special report on Truth Social: “Apple News promotes left-leaning media outlets — as it shuts out conservative outlets entirely.”
That’s our one-of-a-kind research getting the ultimate spotlight. We analyzed 620 top stories featured on Apple News in January and found zero coverage from conservative outlets.
The New York Post covered our report and caught the President’s eye. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Sean Hannity both posted it to their millions of followers on X. Fox Business ran with it on Varney & Co. and other programs. Elon Musk commented “wow” to the report last week.
But CNN’s Brian Stelter had to disparage it: “MRC wants more links to ‘right-leaning publications,’ but the reality is that those publications rarely break big stories. Right-wing media is mostly reactive, meaning regurgitating and opining on news reported from elsewhere.”
Graham doesn’t prove Stelter wrong.
Bozell continued his right-wing media tour by appearing on another radio show:
David Bozell, President of the Media Research Center (MRC), recently appeared on The Joe Concha Tunnel to Towers Foundation Show to expose what he describes as systemic bias in the Four Big News Apps – Google News, Apple News, Yahoo News, and MSN. Bozell spotlighted a new MRC study using the MRC Digital News Tracker, which monitors how these platforms curate content for millions of users.
Bozell highlighted Apple’s curation practices, noting that in January, Apple News featured 620 top stories—440 from left-leaning outlets, with the rest from center sources, and none from right-leaning ones. Just last week Apple ended a 99-day shutout of conservative sources by linking to a Fox News Digital story about the death of actor James Van Der Beek.
Bozell argued that while Apple has editorial rights, claiming neutrality becomes untenable when 80% or more of selected news skews left. “If they’re presenting themselves as a neutral arbiter of the narrative of the day, they have a tough time sticking by that claim,” Bozell said.
Bozelll didn’t explain why he considers right-wing outlets to be “neutral.” He too crowed about the right-wing attention the MRC’s attacks on Apple News have gotten:
MRC’s research gained traction when FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook questioning potential violations of user agreements or consumer expectations under the FTC Act. Bozell welcomed the scrutiny, emphasizing it’s not about free speech but deceptive practices if platforms misrepresent neutrality.
Bozell doesn’t disclose that Ferguson is a right-winger who does Trump’s bidding. And he still didn’t explain why his preferred right-wing outlets should be considered “neutral.”