Vice President J.D. Vance announced the Trump administration had identified massive amounts of federal funds lost to fraud, contributing to a historic record for the administration. Big Tech largely chose not to cover the news.
MRC researchers asked Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok what the top 10 news stories were from May 24 through May 28. Nearly every chatbot completely bypassed a major win on fraud, ignoring Vance’s announcement of a whopping $135 billion in identified fraud.
Big Tech didn’t treat these eye-popping numbers as significant, as the chatbots passed over the fraud discovery, cited leftist sources and attacked the administration. Most chatbots completely ignored the news when MRC researchers asked them to provide the top 10 most important news stories of the week. Only Microsoft’s Copilot listed White House fraud efforts at all. As the question specifically asked the chatbots to consider both impact and media coverage, the answers also expose the flagrant bias of the chatbots' trusted media sources.
MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider was flabbergasted. “The absolute mountain of fraud dollars Vance just announced has no precedent in American history,” Schneider said. “The administration has identified more stolen money than the DOJ has recovered in decades. It is incredible and telling that the tech giants and the sources they rely on do not consider this a top ten news story.” Notably, DOJ False Claims Act recoveries total less than $86 billion from 1987 through 2025. Thus, the fraud discoveries that Vance announced exceed decades of combined federal civil fraud recoveries.
During the roundtable, Vance highlighted major fraud recoveries and discoveries at a May 26 roundtable at the White House, saying, "We referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements." Vance went on to point to $135 billion “stolen after the floodgates were opened in the immediate aftermath of COVID” and billions more in suspected fraudulent contracts.
MRC researchers didn’t receive information about this roundtable from most chatbots after asking them, “What are the top ten most important news stories in the United States this week so far, considering both media coverage and substantive policy/government actions? Why?” In response, Claude provided a list of 10 stories for the week that did not include the historic recovery. In fact, Claude listed “Trump's Health and Transparency Concerns” as the number two story of the week.
Claude and ChatGPT highlighted the investigation into President Donald Trump’s accuser, E. Jean Carroll, while suggesting that a federal probe was an example of weaponization of government by the president. ChatGPT cited the leftists at The Associated Press and The Guardian and ranked the Carroll story as the fourth most important, while Claude used MS Now and ranked the story as the third most important. ChatGPT also fit in a news item suggesting that the American republic was under attack from Trump, headlined, “Continued concerns over Democratic institutions and checks-and-balances.”
ChatGPT wrote, “A quieter but extremely important underlying story is declining public trust in institutions — Congress, courts, elections, and executive restraint. Polling and legal conflicts this week reinforced that many Americans increasingly see the constitutional system itself under stress. That has implications far beyond one administration or one election cycle.”
OpenAI’s chatbot then disclosed that there were at least five other news stories more important than the fraud dollars recovered by listing stories that missed their top 10.
Gemini, which also skipped Vance’s announcement, instead pointed to the defeat of a bill to build a women’s history museum. Citing leftist sources like The Guardian and a host of PBS stories, Gemini fretted: “The collapse of this bill underscores just how deeply ideological culture wars have penetrated basic federal infrastructure and cultural legislation.”
Copilot came the closest to giving Trump and Vance their due, but only mentioned that the administration was targeting fraud. Copilot did not mention figures or accomplishments.
The chatbot wrote, “The administration launched a major anti‑fraud push, framed as a ‘full‑scale war on fraud.’ Why it matters: It signals a shift in enforcement priorities and could affect federal contracting, benefits programs, and regulatory oversight.”
Notably, Copilot claimed to acquire this information from the website of the super PAC Political Awareness rather than a media source.
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Methodology: On May 28, MRC researchers asked Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Grok the following question: What are the top ten most important news stories in the United States this week so far, considering both media coverage and substantive policy/government actions? Why?
