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On Wednesday, bombshell news broke that former President Joe Biden’s FBI had obtained phone records on current FBI Director Kash Patel and former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens.  That led to the FBI firing 10 employees.   So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to these developments in the lawfare case waged against President Donald Trump and his administration?  Zero seconds.  MRC analysts looked at the morning and evening shows…

Google made sure its viewers knew its stance on President Donald Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union address with a flurry of elitist media hits against his speech on Wednesday morning.  In its coverage of Trump’s comments, Google News promoted eight leftist media outlets, while denying reporting from any right-leaning media outlets. Google painted a subtle but clear picture of its rejection of the president and his policies as it pushed reporting from outlets like The New York Times,…

As eyes worldwide were turning to Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics, Apple News editors pushed stories on immigration — including ICE and the Department of Homeland Security — relying on leftist and center outlets while excluding right-leaning media altogether.  Over the first two weeks of February 2026, Apple News ran 57 headlines, all from leftist or center news outlets, about immigration, ICE and the threat to DHS funding. Apple News’s ICE, DHS and immigration coverage accounted for 20…

On Monday, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, denounced FCC chairman Brendan Carr for threatening to use the agency’s equal time rule against the late night comedy shows, which he claimed led CBS to force him to put his interview with State Rep. James Talarico on YouTube. With the equal time rule now in the news, NewsBusters analysts dug into the archive to find out when each of the four network late night hosts had a candidate on from each party and found that the last time every…

Just two days after Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson wrote a warning letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook in response to a bombshell report by the Media Research Center, Apple News hit a dubious milestone: 100 days to highlight a single article from a right-leaning outlet in its morning editions.  It took 100 days for Apple News to promote an article from a right-leaning media source. It has published 1,379 stories from left-leaning outlets in that same time period. Only after the…

Editor's Note: This study was shared by President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, X owner Elon Musk, the New York Post, Fox Business and more. Apple News continued its defiant stance against offering news from right-leaning outlets through the end of January 2026.  Apple News stubbornly refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026. Of the 620 top stories featured by the news app in…

MSN claims users can personalize their news feed, but the digital news gatekeeper’s list of “recommended publishers” to choose from includes 15 left-leaning outlets compared to only two right-leaning ones. Microsoft’s MSN touts its ability to personalize your news feed, claiming that it will provide “[t]he information you expect, more personal than ever.” MRC Free Speech America researchers investigated which outlets MSN recommends, and the results were as biased as you’d expected.  Not only…

EXCLUSIVE: A new Media Research Center study revealed that the Big Four News Apps relentlessly smeared President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement in what amounted to a coordinated campaign of hostile, one‑sided coverage that amplified attacks from leftist broadcast networks. The new MRC analysis found that Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News flooded their platforms with a staggering 86% of negative and uncontextualized headlines about ICE operations in Minneapolis,…

The Big Four News Apps just completely ignored the March for Life in a blackout so intense that even the pro-life marchers couldn’t find significant related coverage. MRC researchers found that Apple News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo News all ignored reporting on the 53rd annual March for Life on the morning of Jan. 23. Instead, these digital gatekeepers reported on anti-ICE protests and an incoming winter storm stories from featuring leftist and elitist media like Buzzfeed, HuffPost, Salon,…

UPDATE: On Friday’s CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil offered a 20 second brief on the murder drop, bringing the total airtime on ABC (0 seconds), CBS (20 seconds), NBC (8 seconds) to 28 seconds. A big win for the Trump administration and, most importantly, for the country was just announced on Friday: “Last year will likely register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years and the largest single-year drop on record, according to a new analysis of 2025 crime data.” This statement…

EXCLUSIVE: December is often marked by celebration. However, for right-leaning media, the month was defined by censorship at the hands of Google News. A new MRC study found that the tech giant’s news app suppressed right-leaning sources throughout December. For four weeks straight, Google News stifled right-leaning media, funneling unknowing users toward coverage dominated by leftist perspectives. MRC’s Findings:  Google News skewed coverage by promoting left-leaning outlets 70.3% of the…

Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials.  MRC analysts pored through every report about the situation in Minneapolis which aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC…

After a dismal record to close out 2025, Apple News has unfortunately shown renewed commitment to left-wing bias in the first two weeks of 2026.  Apple News did not use a single right-leaning outlet among its top 20 articles in its morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 14, 2026. Apple News continued its streak of completely excluding right-leaning media outlets across its 280 top stories.  Instead of highlighting news stories from popular right-leaning outlets such as Fox News or the New…

In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 jokes making fun of liberals over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two jokes about liberals and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump has defunded PBS. After playing a clip of a House hearing involving his nemesis, FCC chairman Brenden…

EXCLUSIVE: For six weeks, Google News quietly worked to throttle coverage of widespread fraud allegations in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota, an exclusive Media Research Center analysis found. Google News, a digital gatekeeper that shapes what millions of Americans see each day, kept its readers in the dark as the Minnesota fraud scandal intensified, publishing just four stories on the matter out of 840 in its top 20 morning editions from Nov. 28 to Jan. 9.  The scandal gained national attention in…