Apple News should come with a warning label disclosing its radical leftist bias. In November, its editors chose only one article from a right-leaning source, and that source wasn’t even an American outlet.
MRC Free Speech America researchers began documenting the stories and outlets featured by Apple News in its top 20 stories each morning on Nov. 3, 2025. Human editors select the top stories on Apple News, which sets it apart from some competing Big Tech news aggregators that rely on automated algorithms, as reported by news outlets including the leftist New York Times.
Apple News's direct control of its top stories exposes the platform's bias, especially since only one of the 560 articles examined in November came from a right-leaning source. Seemingly adding insult to injury, the single story came from “lean right,” British outlet The Telegraph. MRC was not surprised by Apple News's inclusion of The Telegraph, given that the article touched on the Sudanese genocide, a topic the elitist media have largely neglected.
To make matters worse, the article was behind Apple’s “Apple News+” premium subscription service. This means that users who do not pay Apple to see its highly biased news roundup could not even view the article. Other articles selected by the Apple News editors about the Sudanese genocide of Christians and other non-Arabs came from outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and NBC News.
Apple News featured articles from radically leftist outlets such as Vox, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Vice, during the time frame studied. It also featured articles from fairly local or unknown outlets such as WLRN South Florida, an NPR and PBS affiliate, and the North Dakota Monitor and the Louisiana Illuminator, both States Newsroom affiliates. Yet, Apple News failed to select a story from any of the three right-leaning outlets found among the top 20 most-visited news sites in America: Fox News, the Daily Mail or the New York Post.
MRC’s findings leave no doubt about who Apple News is cheering for. Far from just a harmful news aggregator, it is a hub of cherry-picked stories driven by a partisan agenda. Anyone choosing to get their news from Apple should be clearly informed of its bias.
Methodology: During the time period Nov. 3 - 30, 2025, MRC researchers examined the top 20 news stories featured on Apple News each day at approximately 10:00 AM EST. Researchers then used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and calculate the results.
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