I & I Editorial BoardIf you get your news from Apple, Google, Bing, or Yahoo, you are unknowingly being fed a steady diet of left-wing stories. That’s according to research by AllSides, a news aggregator that rates the bias of news sites.
Yet, these Big Tech sites continue to insist that they are ideologically neutral.
The AllSides audit found that nearly three-quarters of the links on Google News were to left-leaning news sites. Just 1% took readers to a right-leaning news source. Google has gotten worse since AllSides started auditing aggregator sites in 2022, when the share of left-leaning stories on Google News was 61%.
At Apple News, the current ratio is 50% left-leaning to 2% right-leaning. Bing is 72% to 5%. Yahoo was 53% to 2%.
What is particularly amusing, or sad, depending on your perspective, is the fact that the Drudge Report is on the left-hand side of the bias column. The audit finds that 49% of the sources that Drudge now links to are left-leaning, just 10% are right-leaning.
See also: “Drudge Is Dead” and “Meet The New Drudge, Better Than The Old Drudge“
Mark Grabowski, head of Adelphi University’s communications department, called the findings “damning,” telling the New York Post that “These companies have spent years insisting their platforms are neutral. This data makes that claim very hard to take seriously.”
If anything, the bias among these aggregator sites is even more rampant than AllSides admits. That’s because AllSides’ method of rating news bias appears itself to skew a bit leftward. For example, it puts news outlets such as BBC News, Reuters, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal’s news section in its “center” column, and claims NPR, Politico, and Axios only “lean” left. But it shoves Fox News all the way over to the right, along with straight-up opinion outlets like National Review. (See its bias chart here.)
When confronted, Big Tech companies will trot out excuses for their flagrant bias, but that is poppycock. As Grabowski correctly observes, “There’s no shortage of credible right-leaning journalism out there.”
RealClearPolitics, which regularly links to our editorials, has an almost perfectly balanced page, according to AllSides, with 23% of its links going to sites on the left, 22% on the right.
The only aggregator site more dead center is AllSides itself.
This isn’t the only insidious form of bias AllSides has uncovered. Another analysis found that “fact checking” sites are also overwhelmingly skewed to the left. Of the 25 fact-checking sites rated by AllSides, 12 lean left, just six lean right, and seven are in the center.
This is a particularly nasty form of media bias, given that these “fact checking” sites all pretend to be impartial, merely presenting stone-cold facts. But as AllSides puts it:
These sources may be seen as more reliable or credible than other news outlets because of their focus on ‘facts.’ But often, fact checkers will analyze information for the reader and draw a conclusion about what the facts mean, which is subjective in nature. Other times, they’ll display bias based on what facts they choose to downplay or to highlight. They also show bias based on story choice — for example, primarily fact-checking left-wing politicians, or only fact-checking right-wing claims.
The problem with both of these forms of bias is that they amount to false advertising. Big Tech news sites and fact-checking sites claim to be impartial.
They are not. And, one way or another, this form of journalistic deception needs to stop.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
My iPhone offers me a steady stream of anti-Trump news sources on their “News” app, and the greedy little leftists at Apple actually have an option where I can pay a monthly fee to read left wing trash like the Guardian or New York Times. No thanks!
As one who ”back in the day” read the NYT ”early” Sunday edition cover to cover for relaxation, entertainment, and information, I now read at least a dozen foreign news sites daily to find more truth regarding USA, as well as at least a dozen domestic sources which I almost always take with a bit of salt.
Out of those, the ONLY ONE mentioned in the article that I support and plan to continue supporting is ”Real Clear Politics,” though I do support some domestic non political blogs.
Thank you for this article confirming my findings regarding the massive propaganda efforts in the domestic media.
That’s interesting because based on the exact same article from AllSides RCP has actually moved slightly to the right from 2023 to 2025, and on their general Media Bias Chart, RCP is ranked “Lean Right”.
It’s obviously a problem if news aggregators are biased, but it’s a problem both ways. RCP may be considered centre as a news aggregator by AllSides, because they link to articles from both sides, but their own editorial content is right-leaning as per AllSides, and glancing quickly down over their website, the aggregator for some reason also includes posts from X and straight up opinion pieces, with a single authors spin on some actual news. The founders have clearly expressed frustration about their perceived general media bias against conservatives.
Feel free to read the full report on:
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/realclearpolitics-media-bias
Regarding finding truthful information I am inclined to cite the good old “Reality has a left-leaning bias”. Whenever studies come out confirming left-leaning policies, they are usually dismissed by conservatives as being biased studies… In a similar vein, independent telegram bureaus and news agencies are being called leftist by the Trump administration. This is companies that are used and trusted by media corporations globally to deliver stories directly with as little political twist or bias. Yet they are somehow too left wing for the conservatives of the US. Instead the conservative media landscape is continually moving towards opinion pieces and editorials with a clear political profile regardless of the original story.
My point is: The conservatives have for years complained about the left-leaning bias of the media. But part of the problem is that the conservative media has gradually moved further to the right too, so even though e.g. NYT may have moved left (and their opinion pieces are rightly lamed as firmly on the left by AllSides), the bias distance to something like Fox News is increased massively, because Fox News is now competing with Breitbart, Daily Caller, The Federalist, Newsmax, OAN etc. that are firmly on the right, so they have moved further right too. Coincidentally following the rise of Trump in 2016, AllSides ranked Fox News as “Lean Right” in 2017-2021 when those other right wing media started really popping up and I guess you can say moved the limits of what “Right” meant. From 2021, after Biden took office, they moved Fox back to the “Right” after Fox News was noted as having shifted their editorial line after the Biden inauguration.
In the end everybody has to find the media that resonates with them, but as the media outlets continually move out on the more extreme ends of the political spectrum in their pursuit of engagement and thus ad revenue, our societies are torn apart by editorialized fabricated rage bait that only serves a small group of people already in power.
In the end I would like to point out that this site itself has a “Other Sites We Like” list, and the majority of those that are listed on AllSides are in fact classified as “Right” bias (including several of those listed as Fox News competition). So it is not surprising that this site likes to highlight the findings from AllSides that indicate a problem, but they are most definitely not unbiased themselves.
Unlike so many other supposedly neutral news organizations, we admit our bias up front. As our About Us page states: “We are unapologetically pro free market and for a limited federal government.”
If this information comes as a surprise to anyone… You clearly haven’t been paying attention.z
I would like to point out to Morten (his point is this: “My point is: The conservatives have for years complained about the left-leaning bias of the media. But part of the problem is that the conservative media has gradually moved further to the right too,….”) that the very fact that the Left has gone farther left (this creating a larger gap between Left and Right) does not mean categorically that the Right has gone farther right.
The Left entertained us with: Russia, Russia, Russia falsehood; it’s connection to Trump; with Lawfare; with Hunter’s computer (that according to the Left wasn’t his computer or didn’t have culpable evidence on it), the Kavanaugh hearings, viz. The obvious defaming and smearing of Brett Kavanaugh was a solid-gold snapshot of the Left’s bias. Unlike with Robert Bork, it wasn’t just one or even a few Senators who came out against him, but whole gaggles of Leftists (one from even when Kavanaugh was in high school) who besmeared the halls with their Leftist lies and garbage.
I could name a lot more.
The very fact that you can ignore and “pooh pooh” these examples of Leftist bias in the media (and how it has spread like a cancer) while attributing to the Right equal bias demonstrates only one thing, in my opinion: How hogtied you are to your own Leftist ideology.