It’s not just Apple News that’s inundating users with left-wing bias — most of the other big online news aggregators are doing it, too.
Just 1% of Google News articles in non-customizable sections of Google News come from outlets that rank as right-leaning, according to a bombshell study by AllSides, a nonpartisan group that classifies news outlets according to their political leanings.
That’s compared to 73% from outlets deemed left leaning, according to the audit of major news aggregators that curate articles from around the internet.
Google News’ left-wing news bias is even worse than Apple News, whose in-house editorial team curated just 2% of its articles from right-leaning outlets, compared to 50% from the left, according to the study. AllSides focused on sections of the Apple News app that can’t be personalized by users.
Microsoft’s Bing News exhibited a similar editorial slant, drawing just 5% of its articles from conservative media outlets and 72% coming from left-leaning outlets. Yahoo News drew just 2% from the right and 53% from the left.
By failing to provide a balanced newsfeed to their users, the aggregators are effectively “prevent[ing] Americans from considering multiple views and thinking independently,” according to Julie Mastrine, the director of AllSides’ media bias rating system.
“The impact of one-sided media on our society is both sinister and immeasurable, as these aggregators enjoy massive reach, in the tens of millions of users,” Mastrine told The Post.
The AllSides report could place the Big Tech giants in the crosshairs of the White House and the Federal Trade Commission, which have vowed to crack down on anti-conservative bias in tech and media platforms.
The findings are “damning,” according to Mark Grabowski, a digital ethics expert who chairs the communications department at Adelphi University.
“These companies have spent years insisting their platforms are neutral. This data makes that claim very hard to take seriously,” Grabowski said. “There’s no shortage of credible right-leaning journalism out there.”
As The Post was first to report in February, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned Apple CEO Tim Cook that the company could be violating federal consumer protection laws by stifling right-leaning outlets.
AllSides’ “strong work should be a warning to all Americans — left, right and center — that our entire system of government is being threatened by the most powerful corporations the world has ever known,” said Dan Schneider of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group.
“About half of Americans now get their news from these tech companies, but most don’t realize that the information they are getting is algorithmically skewed to push a liberal narrative,” added Schneider, who first raised alarms about Apple News’ alleged bias earlier this year.
In February 2025, Ferguson launched an inquiry into tech censorship and said his agency wanted to “better understand how these firms may have violated the law by silencing and intimidating Americans for speaking their minds.”
AllSides conducted its audits between June and December 2025. The site’s team of reviewers focused on sections of each aggregator’s feeds that were curated by humans rather than algorithms. The audits took place over two-week periods.
To establish bias ratings for specific media outlets, AllSides uses a multi-partisan panel of experts — with two members from the left, two from the center and two from the right – that are trained to spot media bias, as well as blind surveys of regular Americans.
When reached for comment, a Google News spokesperson said AllSides’ study “gets the facts wrong.”
“It’s based on arbitrary ratings and a tiny two-week snapshot, and it ignores the fact that Google News is personalized to people’s interests and location,” the spokesperson said.
Apple said the trending news section of its app is populated automatically based on readership, not by its in-house editors. It declined further comment.
A Yahoo News spokesperson said the company works with hundreds of outlets from both sides of the political spectrum, including right-leaning outlets like Fox News and The Post.
In the study, each aggregator was given a bias ratio, with negative numbers denoting a leftward bias, positive numbers a rightward bias and 0.0 denoting perfect balance.
Google News ranked as the most biased aggregator with a bias ratio of -1.62. Apple News (-1.57), Bing News (-1.55) and Yahoo News (-1.55) all had ratios that placed them solidly in the “lean left” category.
Among the most popular news aggregators, SmartNews (-0.79), NewsBreak (-0.42), RealClearPolitics (0.17) and AllSides itself (0.09) all received “center” bias ratios, meaning they provide articles from a balanced range of sources.
The right-leaning Drudge Report was a special case. Because Drudge also rewrites headlines to suit its editorial vision rather than merely repost articles, AllSides conducted two separate audits – one focused on the political bent of the articles themselves, and one in which a panel of experts took Drudge’s revised headlines into account.
Based on content alone, Drudge received a -0.91 bias ratio – placing it within AllSides “center” designation. However, when combined with the audit of Drudge’s headlines, which are often sharply critical of Trump, the aggregator’s bias ratio swung to -1.74, which placed it to the left of Google News.
White House Wire, launched in 2025 by the Trump administration, was unsurprisingly ranked as “lean right” with a bias ratio of 2.50 – higher than any other aggregator tracked in AllSides’ analysis.
The number of articles reviewed for the analysis varied by aggregator, ranging from 140 (for Yahoo News) to 315 (for RealClearPolitics).
Representatives for Microsoft’s Bing News and Drudge Report did not return requests for comment.
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