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Yahoo News is the most fanatical of the Big Four News Apps, more extreme than its counterparts Apple News, Google News and Microsoft’s MSN.  Not only did Yahoo News more heavily favor left-leaning outlets than the others, it also more aggressively promoted articles from some of the most radical media outlets in America. As the fourth most-widely viewed news site in America, its bias and reach have an enormous impact on American politics and culture.  The Media Research Center tracked Yahoo…

Since February 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been largely shut down after funding lapsed because Democrats demanded changes to President Trump’s deportation policies, leaving government workers such as TSA agents to work without pay and turn to food banks. A Media Research Center study found that, since the start of the DHS shutdown, only eight percent – or 125 seconds – of the 26 minutes and 22 seconds on the shutdown across the flagship evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and…

Last December, after revelations of massive fraud in Somali community in Minneapolis, President Trump sent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers into Minneapolis for “Operation Metro Surge,” arresting illegal immigrants with criminal records, displeasing the pro-amnesty press and far-left activist mobs. Media ire flamed up January 7, 2026 after an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good in her car as she interfered in an immigration enforcement operation. After giving her an…

On Monday, President Donald Trump made it very clear that passing his very popular voter ID bill – the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act – is his “number one priority.” This comes on the heels of his Truth Social statement on Sunday that he will “not sign other Bills until this is passed.” NewsBusters previously reported on Friday that the broadcast networks have completely ignored the SAVE America Act legislation since it passed the House on February 11. There has also been a…

EXCLUSIVE: As Apple News faces relentless criticism for systematically erasing right-leaning sources from its app, Microsoft’s MSN has quietly pulled a similar stunt. But unlike Apple’s brazen elimination of right-leaning outlets, MSN camouflages its censorship behind a thin veil of human interest stories from Fox News. When accounting for MSN’s shell game, the results are similar to prior studies by the Media Research Center: MSN only promoted 20 genuine political stories from right-leaning…

The late night comedians reacted to the start of the Iran War with not only a week of disapproval, but also a lopsided joke count. According to a new Media Research Center study, the hosts told 94 percent of their war-related jokes about the United States and our allies. Analysts examined 20 episodes of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon from Monday…

What do you do if you are the networks and President Donald Trump has pushed a proposal (like the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on voter ID) that enjoys over 70 percent support?  If you are fair, you’d cover it.  If you are opposed to all things Trump, you could savage it, to try to bring its popularity down.  Or you could pretend it doesn’t even exist.  So, how much time have the networks devoted to this very popular Trump administration proposal?  Zero seconds. MRC…

Apple News blinked after an MRC Free Speech America report that called out the app for running 620 top stories from left-leaning and other outlets while running exactly zero top stories from right-leaning outlets in the month of January went viral.  Since the story went viral Feb. 11, 2026 following FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson’s letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook about the digital news gatekeeper’s leftist bias, the news app has run eight articles from right-leaning outlets (2%) in its daily…

On early Sunday morning in Austin, Texas, a gunman fired into crowds of pedestrians from his moving vehicle, wounding 14 people and ultimately killing three. The shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, a Muslim immigrant from Senegal, was wearing a hoodie that read, “Property of Allah.” Left-wing cable networks CNN and MS NOW have reported all of the above details at least once — all except the fact that Diagne was a Muslim.  MRC analysts looked at all coverage on CNN and MS NOW of the March 1, 2026…

On Wednesday, bombshell news broke that former President Joe Biden’s FBI had obtained phone records on current FBI Director Kash Patel and former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens.  That led to the FBI firing 10 employees.   So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to these developments in the lawfare case waged against President Donald Trump and his administration?  Zero seconds.  MRC analysts looked at the morning and evening shows…

Google made sure its viewers knew its stance on President Donald Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union address with a flurry of elitist media hits against his speech on Wednesday morning.  In its coverage of Trump’s comments, Google News promoted eight leftist media outlets, while denying reporting from any right-leaning media outlets. Google painted a subtle but clear picture of its rejection of the president and his policies as it pushed reporting from outlets like The New York Times,…

As eyes worldwide were turning to Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics, Apple News editors pushed stories on immigration — including ICE and the Department of Homeland Security — relying on leftist and center outlets while excluding right-leaning media altogether.  Over the first two weeks of February 2026, Apple News ran 57 headlines, all from leftist or center news outlets, about immigration, ICE and the threat to DHS funding. Apple News’s ICE, DHS and immigration coverage accounted for 20…

On Monday, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, denounced FCC chairman Brendan Carr for threatening to use the agency’s equal time rule against the late night comedy shows, which he claimed led CBS to force him to put his interview with State Rep. James Talarico on YouTube. With the equal time rule now in the news, NewsBusters analysts dug into the archive to find out when each of the four network late night hosts had a candidate on from each party and found that the last time every…

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…

Editor's Note: 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. 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…