So much for Big Tech becoming more fair to conservatives. Despite reports of Big Tech softening towards Donald Trump and the right in recent years, the left-wing bias remains as strong as ever in the era of Trump 2.0. The latest evidence is a study from the Media Research Center which finds Apple News completely shut out conservative content over a one-month period. The report examined Apple's news app, which aggregates stories from various sources into a news feed, and found that of the 620 stories featured during prime morning-time slots during January, all were from sources deemed "left-leaning" or "centrist."
The clear majority of stories on Apple News were from the left. In fact, more than 70% of stories were from left-leaning outlets, with the remaining from centrist outlets. Exactly zero stories came from right-leaning outlets. "The total omission of right-leaning news outlets is, of course, deliberate," says Jeff McCall, media studies professor at DePauw University. "Interestingly, Fox News Digital is the leading news site for clicks in the nation, and it was still overlooked."
The MRC report shows Apple News did not include a single story from Fox News in January, and has not featured a story from a right-leaning outlet since Nov. 5, when it ran a piece from the U.K. Telegraph.
What this shows is that despite some Big Tech leaders cozying up to President Trump and paying lip service to fairness, the bias within these companies remains deeply entrenched. "To root out that bias is going to take a long and conscientious effort by many people, to root it out basically from the internal organs of these organizations," says McCall. "That's not gonna happen for awhile, and maybe ever."
"That's why everybody needs to use their own judgment when it comes to news, and figure it out on their own," he continues. "And not rely on the establishment media anymore."
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