On Nov. 9, 2020, the Media Research Center blasted Big Tech and Big Media for stealing the 2020 election by censoring news and information after they hid the Biden family scandals from the American people. And now Big Media and Big Tech are threatening democracy again.
President Donald Trump unveiled damning new evidence implicating communist China in a plot to undermine American elections past and future.
Repeating similar methods from 2020, Big Media and Big Tech are at it again. Before Trump’s speech even began last evening, Big Media attacked the president’s credibility, with the Big Three broadcast networks (ABC News, CBS News and NBC News) and CNN flat-out refusing to preempt their programming to air Trump’s primetime speech in full without interruption. Meanwhile, Big Tech, via what the MRC calls the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News), did its best to silence or distort the president’s message by amplifying reports made by Big Media in their top 20 morning feeds Friday. To top it off, the Big Four News Apps did not include a single story from an AllSides-rated right-leaning outlet to cover Trump's speech.
Among the Big Four News Apps, Microsoft’s MSN was arguably the worst. It did not even cover Trump’s address.
The other news aggregators were not far behind MSN in their effort to undermine democracy by dutifully regurgitating leftist talking points through the dissemination of stories from a wholly one-sided perspective—the left’s.
Of the digital news gatekeepers that actually did share articles on the speech, Yahoo News was the most slanted, relying on the far-left Associated Press, USA Today and Trump speech-censoring CBS News for its coverage of the revelations from the prior evening. The outrageously biased, anti-Trump headlines promoted by Yahoo News included the following:
- “After 6 years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House,” by The Associated Press, promoted July 17.
- “Trump overstates election weaknesses in primetime speech: 5 takeaways,” by USA Today, promoted July 17.
- “Trump speaks on elections, alleging Chinese access to voter data,” by CBS News, promoted July 17.
- “To air or not to air? Nation's TV networks struggle to find the right balance for Trump speech,” by The Associated Press, promoted July 17.
Despite not promoting articles exclusively from leftist outlets, Google News was nearly as bad. It promoted two foreign outlets (BBC and DW), as well as Trump-speech censoring CNN and leftist outlets NPR and The New York Times, for its coverage of Trump’s speech. Like Yahoo News, Google News made sure to undermine the president to the greatest extent possible by trumpeting the elitist media outlets that downplayed Trump’s credibility or cast his remarks in a negative light. The leftist biased headlines included the following:
- “Fact check: Trump revives US election fraud claims,” by DW, promoted July 17.
- “Here’s how the TV networks handled Trump’s highly unusual prime-time address,” by CNN, promoted July 17.
- “Trump alleges China meddled in 2020 election and questions voting security ahead of midterms,” by BBC, promoted July 17.
- “Takeaways From Trump’s Speech Claiming Election Vulnerabilities and China Interference,” by The New York Times, promoted July 17.
- “Takeaways from Trump's primetime speech. And, at least 2 dead in major Texas flooding,” by NPR, promoted July 17.
Apple News promoted a story from AllSides-rated center outlet The Wall Street Journal, but the headline alone shows that it deserves little more than an asterisk. The piece headlined, “Trump Ramps Up Effort to Sow Doubt About 2020 Election,” frames Trump’s speech in a negative light, and the subheadline wasn’t much better. It painted Republicans as in danger of losing the upcoming midterm elections, which could effectively make Trump a lame duck president for his final two years in office, or worse, see him impeached by a Democratic Party majority yet again. The subheadline read: “Extraordinary address comes ahead of November midterm elections, with Republicans at risk of losing their majorities in Congress.”
Methodology: The morning following President Donald Trump’s primetime address to the nation (July 17, 2026), MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories featured on the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News) at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC researchers 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 analyzed the results.
