It looked like Big Tech wanted to turn over a new leaf at the start of Trump's second term.
Then the countdown to the midterms began and someone started keeping score.
What 100 days of data just revealed about Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo is something Silicon Valley hoped nobody would ever count.
Google News, Apple, MSN and Yahoo Buried Conservative Primary Coverage for 100 Days
The Media Research Center tracked the top 20 morning news stories pushed daily by Apple News, Google News, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo News from March 1 through June 8 – 100 days covering the early Republican midterm primaries.
Of the 155 stories about GOP Congressional primaries and Trump-backed candidates, 124 came from outlets like CNN and The New York Times.
Eight stories – 5% – came from conservative news organizations.
Yahoo was the worst offender, pushing nearly 87% of its content from left-leaning outlets across the full study period – the highest imbalance of all four platforms.
The aggregators didn't just tilt left – they ran active opposition research against Trump's candidates.
Google pushed a May 20 piece from The Guardian that called Trump "like a cult leader whose commune keeps getting smaller" and compared him to "a mob boss who can get a horse's head placed in any bed."
MSN highlighted a story framing Trump's primary wins as losses – then Ken Paxton went out and beat incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a runoff anyway.
"Over the first 100 days of GOP primaries, the Silicon Valley tech giants force-fed biased content and smears about Trump and Republican candidates," the MRC report concluded. "Left-leaning outlets that are reliably doing the bidding of the Democrat Party."
Big Tech Censored Conservatives in 2020 and the Platforms Never Changed
This isn't a glitch. It's a pattern with a decade of evidence behind it.
Earlier this year, Apple News went 100 straight days – from November 6, 2025 through February 13, 2026 – without featuring a single right-leaning outlet in its morning editions, running 1,379 stories from left-leaning outlets in the same stretch.
In February 2026, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called out Google on X after an MRC analysis found Google News featured zero right-leaning articles on 17 separate days during that month alone.
The AllSides News Aggregator Bias Chart – tracking data from June through December 2025 – confirmed the picture independently: Google News pulled 73% of its content from left-leaning outlets and just 1% from the right. Apple came in at 50% left, 2% right. Yahoo and Bing weren't far behind.
AllSides director Julie Mastrine called the reach of these platforms – tens of millions of users daily – "both sinister and immeasurable."
Facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. YouTube pulled videos about the Wuhan lab leak before the FBI and Department of Energy confirmed the theory credible. Twitter locked out The Babylon Bee for a joke.
The news aggregators watched all of it happen and then decided to run the same playbook themselves – directly inside the app Americans open every morning before coffee.
What Your Neighbors Are Actually Reading
Your neighbor opens Google News at breakfast. He sees Trump described as a mob boss. He sees his endorsed candidates framed as extremists.
He never sees a single article from Fox News, the New York Post, or the Daily Caller – not because those outlets aren't covering the primaries, but because four Silicon Valley companies decided he shouldn't have to think about them.
That neighbor doesn't know he's inside an echo chamber. The platforms count on that.
MRC Vice President Dan Schneider said: "It's pretty obvious that the New York Post, The Dallas Express, and The Telegraph would have a better understanding of Republican voters than any of the leftist reporters at NPR, The New York Times, or The Guardian."
"But those elitist media outlets replaced 'news' coverage with political spin a long time ago. That's why the radicals at Apple and Google rely on them so much."
The National Republican Senatorial Committee's press secretary added that "at a time when conservative media is thriving and constantly breaking major news, news aggregators are failing to capture the news Americans trust the most."
Google disputed the MRC study's methodology. Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo didn't return comment.
Their silence speaks louder than Google's complaint.
The midterms are five months away. Every morning between now and November, those same platforms will decide what 50 million Americans think they know about Republican candidates – and 95% of it will come from outlets that want Democrats to win.
They've done this before. They know it works.
Sources:
- Rich Calder, "'Biased' Apple, Google, MSN, Yahoo news apps rely on lefty media outlets to slant GOP midterms: survey," New York Post, June 13, 2026.
- Michael Morris, "Special Report: Only 5% — Apple News, Google News, Microsoft's MSN & Yahoo News Shut Out Right-Leaning News," NewsBusters, April 23, 2026.
- "Curious Why Your Google News Feed Feels So One-Sided? Study Reveals 73% Left Bias," Dallas Express, April 21, 2026.
- "Karoline Leavitt: Google News Biased Against Conservatives," Newsmax, March 18, 2026.
- "AllSides News Aggregator Bias Chart," AllSides, April 2026.
