Google, other major news apps feature content from liberal media outlets 70% of time: report

An analysis of news content offered on four of the most widely downloaded news apps showed that over a five-month period, 70% of the news featured was from leftist news outlets. And articles from right-leaning outlets were promoted only 5% of the time, according to the analysis from the Media Research Center.

The conservative content analysis and media watchdog group conducted the analysis from Nov. 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. 

Apple News, Microsoft's MSN, Google News and Yahoo News featured a combined 7,265 articles, according to MRC.

Apple News was that app that featured articles from right-leaning outlets the least out of the four. Of the 2,825 total articles it featured, only 14 came from right-leaning outlets during the period, and Google News wasn't much better, the analysis found. 

Microsoft's MSN was the most balanced app, with 52% of the articles it listed coming from leftist sources, 37% from balanced outlets, and 11% from right-leaning news sources. 

Yahoo News, the analysis found, favored left-leaning outlets the most, with nearly 87% of the articles is featured coming from those news sources.  

Methodology

MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories featured on Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News each day in the mornings at about 10 a.m. from Nov. 1, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026 ET and at about 8:30 a.m. ET from Jan. 12 - March, 31. MRC does not have data for Apple News on Nov. 1 - Nov. 2, 2025, and it does not have data for Google News on Dec. 2, 2025. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by the Big Four News Apps and analyzed the results.