Apple News is 'most radical' of all major news apps, analysis finds

The Media Research Center (MRC) has continued to analyze Apple News after discovering the news aggregator engages in relentless political bias in the way it chooses news coverage for its widely-used app, and found that it is the "most radically left" of the big four news apps. 

According to the new analysis released this week, Apple News featured a total of 592 stories in the most prominent positions of its app during the month of March, and 434 of those stories were published by left-leaning news outlets. This left-leaning bias far exceeded the bias of Apple News' chief competitors: Yahoo News, Google News, and MSN. MRC, a conservative watchdog group, found that Apple News featured just five stories from conservative leaning news outlets in March, down from eight in February. 

Dan Schneider, vice president of MRC Free Speech America, suggested there is intentionality behind Apple News' radical bias. "Apple News just took the crown from Yahoo as the most radical news app, even after the FTC delivered an official warning to the company,” Schneider said in a statement. “I think Tim Cook is sending a clear message to President Trump and to Chairman [Andrew] Ferguson [of the FTC]," he continued, adding, "Apple is far more interested in pushing radicalism than in providing Americans with balanced news. Our nation cannot survive if most voters are being fed propaganda and leftist myths.”

In addition to suppressing news stories from right-leaning publications, MRC found that Apple News also "promoted negative and misleading headlines." Apple produces very little, if any, original content -- it merely aggregates news stories from news partners, which turn out to be almost exclusively mainstream liberal media publishers. After MRC's findings in February, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook warning that the tech giant may be in violation of consumer protection laws.