Google News highlighted opinion pieces that overwhelmingly pushed a leftist narrative and are negative toward right-leaning policies, politicians and people.
The best description for the majority of the opinion pieces Google News chose to feature since November of 2025 is anti-Trump. Selected headlines tell the tale better than any deeper analysis could. For example, from The New York Times and featured by Google News on Nov. 15: “The Outstanding Question About Epstein and Trump.” A week later, Google News featured a San Francisco Chronicle headline on Nov. 21 that exclaimed: “Trump just threatened Democrats with ‘death.’ Is the SEAL Team 6 assassination theory now in play?”
Google News highlighted another banger headline from one of its favorite leftist outlets, The New York Times, on Feb. 7: “Trump’s Obama Derangement Syndrome.” The news aggregator returned once again to the reliably leftist New York Times on July 21 with the ominous headline: “Trump’s Kiss of Death.”
The vast majority of opinion pieces Google News has promoted since the Media Research Center began tracking its morning feeds have presented leftist ideas (45 out of 60) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a majority of the opinion pieces Google News pushed came from leftist outlets (48 out of 60). Between November 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026, MRC researchers tracked the top twenty stories highlighted by Google News each morning, for a total of more than 5,400 stories.
Google News included 48 opinion articles from left-leaning outlets over the nine months analyzed. Of these, only three reflected positively on the United States under President Donald Trump.
One of the leftist opinion pieces Google News promoted was such a seething screed of lowbrow, anti-Trump administration insults that it must be called out on its own. The piece, promoted on July 18 was a feature of The New York Times headlined “Low-T, High Chair.” The New York Times’s attempted indictment on Trump’s prime time speech two nights prior crammed a litany of smears all into one opinion piece. The headline itself referred to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s previous announcement that his department would be monitoring troops for low-testosterone, and the point that he should have been running straight to Trump as his first step. The headline also resorted to calling Trump’s behavior childlike by referencing a “high chair.” How this possibly passed the Google News filter for must-read news for that day is a question the tech giant should answer.
Examples of some of the other more egregiously biased opinion articles from leftist outlets include:
- “A sickening moral slum of an administration: Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent,” from The Washington Post, promoted on Dec. 3, 2025.
- “Letters to the Editor: Trump’s European tariff threat proves he doesn’t understand the purpose of tariffs,” from the Los Angeles Times, promoted on Jan. 21, 2026.
- “‘He’s Debased This Country’: The Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s State of the Union,” from The New York Times, promoted on Feb. 25, 2026.
- “Chuck Norris Was a Great Action Star – but Politics May Overshadow His Legacy,” from Variety, promoted on Mar. 21, 2026.
- “Trump has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends,” from The Guardian, promoted on May 21, 2026.
Google News featured only five opinion pieces from right-leaning outlets over the nine months examined by MRC. The outlets featured included Fox News, New York Post and The Bulwark. The piece from The Bulwark deserves an asterisk at best, as even it took a swipe at Trump directly, though the headline sounds more like an attack on the media.
On Jan. 24, Google News featured the opinion piece from The Bulwark headlined “How the Media Fails With Trump. Over and Over. (And Over.).” Despite the misleading headline, the piece actually referred to Trump as “an aspiring authoritarian force,” and blamed the media for falling for anything “normal, safe, or sane [that] comes out of Trump’s mouth.”
Only one of the seven opinion pieces that were sourced from AllSides-rated center outlets was favorable toward Trump. At least four of the other six were negatively framed against the sitting president. For example, Google News promoted a piece from The Wall Street Journal on June 17, headlined, “Trump Stages an Iran Retreat.”
Methodology: Using MRC’s Digital News Tracker, MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories promoted by Google News during the time period of Nov. 1, 2025 - July 31, 2026 at approximately 10:00 AM ET from Nov. 1, 2025 through Jan. 12, 2026 and approximately 8:30 AM ET from Jan. 13, 2026 through July 31, 2026. MRC researchers examined stories specifically identified by the originating media outlet as “opinion,” “editorial,” or “op-ed.” MRC 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 Google News and analyzed the results.
