Exclusive | Biased Apple, Google, MSN, Yahoo news apps rely on lefty media outlets to slant GOP midterms: survey
Silicon Valley’s “Big Four” news apps are “doing the bidding of the Democratic Party” and stacking the deck against President Trump and the GOP during early coverage of November’s midterm elections, a new analysis found.A whopping 80% of news stories about the Republican primaries promoted by Apple News, Google News, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo News came from lefty media outlets, according to the Media Research Center report, provided exclusively to The Post.The Virginia-based media watchdog tracked the top 20 morning news stories pushed daily by the online platforms over 100 days, from March 1 to June 8.In all, 155 of the pieces were about the GOP Congressional primaries and Trump-backed candidates, with a shocking 124 of those pulled from notoriously anti-Trump outlets such as CNN and the New York Times.In comparison, a measly eight of the stories, or 5%, came from conservative news organizations, the report found.Outlets deemed centrist or without bias accounted for the remaining 23, or 15%.The news aggregators are not just showing their political slant through the sheer number of left-leaning stories they promote.
They selected articles that took extremely partisan stances against Trump and his favored candidates, analysts found.For example, Google pushed a May 20 article by The Guardian headlined, “Trump’s allies in danger of scraping false hope from Maga victory in Kentucky primary.”The story alleged the president is “like a cult leader whose commune keeps getting smaller” and that Trump “still rules the Republican party like a mob boss who can get a horse’s head placed in any bed.”Other stories elevated by the aggregators also reinforced a slimy narrative portraying Trump-backed primary wins as losses, and his endorsements as toxic, the report said.Headlines used loaded language, including terms like “revenge,” “retribution” and “villain” to characterize the president’s role in these races.For instance, MSN highlighte...