Thanks to your support, the Media Research Center recently accomplished something extraordinary — and we did it at lightning speed.
In just 90 days, MRC took an issue Silicon Valley and Democrat power brokers didn’t want exposed — the left‐wing manipulation baked into the Big Four News Apps that millions rely on every day — and forced it into the national spotlight. These apps are preloaded on nearly every smartphone, browser, and laptop in America. They’re inescapable, and they quietly shape what millions of people see as “news” every single day. Yet until MRC built our proprietary Digital News Tracker, no one had ever documented how these apps curate information or how aggressively they elevate the left while suppressing conservative media.
Our January Apple News study — 620 highlighted stories, zero from conservative outlets — hit a nerve inside the very media circles that depend on these apps to prop up their failing brands. CBS News, in its own coverage of the FTC’s warning to Apple, quoted our findings directly, noting that our analysis showed Apple News “consistently boosted left‐leaning sources, while right‐leaning outlets didn’t appear in users’ feeds.” The Washington Post quoted me on the issue: “Platforms that function as primary gateways to news for millions of Americans should not quietly tilt the playing field while presenting themselves as broad representative aggregators.” CNN’s Brian Stelter rushed to defend the status quo, claiming conservative outlets “rarely break big stories.” Nonsense — and the data proves otherwise.