The U.S. Supreme Court gave a huge win to the fight for parental rights against radical transgender ideology. But many Americans might not have noticed if all they read was Google News and Microsoft’s MSN.
A March 2 U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocked the enforcement of a California law that allowed secret gender transitions for schoolchildren, noting that it likely violates the constitutional rights of parents.
On Monday, MRC Vice President for Free Speech Dan Schneider predicted that the internet’s digital news gatekeepers (Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News) would ignore the story. Now it is clear that he was onto something. Indeed, MRC researchers found that Google News and MSN did not promote the story at all in the top 20 articles of Tuesday morning’s edition. Meanwhile, Yahoo News and Apple News promoted only one article, framing the story around the leftist perspective.
As Schneider noted Tuesday, “The Big 4 news apps are just as confused about transgenderism as the advocates are. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo all have agendas. They hide in plain sight on our phones, computers and email servers, but their impact is transparent and massive. The tech giants use their resources to push a radical ideology and to drive down Trump’s approval numbers. The public needs to know what is really going on.”
Both Apple News and Yahoo News promoted an article from Reuters headlined, “US Supreme Court blocks California privacy protections for transgender students.” While AllSides rates Reuters “center,” this particular article was extremely slanted in favor of the California law promoting secretive child gender transition.
For example, the headline itself frames parents knowing what is going on with their children as a violation of “privacy protections,” i.e., a child’s privacy from their parents. In reality, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that the California state law—which provides immunity for teachers and staff who hide children’s gender transitions from parents—is likely unconstitutional.
Reuters also employed other obviously biased tactics in the piece, including putting the arguments of the parents in scare quotes, but not applying the same to the anti-parental rights arguments. Furthermore, Reuters did not acknowledge that the Court objected to California schools’ “misleading” parents. Instead, it framed the lawsuit as part of a GOP campaign “to restrict the rights of transgender people.” Nor did Reuters touch upon the Court’s opinion that the parents are likely to succeed in their case based on legal grounds.
Methodology: On March 3, 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 AllSides-rated news stories featured on Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News at approximately 8:30 AM ET.
