Same Old Tricks: Big Tech News 'Aggregators' Suppress Dem Scandals in Lead-Up to Elections

Tom Olohan : Nov 24, 2025
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“...In the most recent elections, Google and the rest of these aggregators flagrantly acted to protect not only Jones, Sherrill, Spanberger and Mamdani but also down-ballot Democrats running in the same election.” -MRC Vice President for Free Speech America Dan Schneider

[MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org] Big Tech just got busted burying the scandals dogging Democrat candidates in the 2025 elections. (Image via Pixabay)

Google News, Microsoft’s MSN, Yahoo! News and AOL News largely hid the scandals related to candidates in key election races across America, only allowing a total of 14 stories mentioning the scandals to be published on their sites out of 2,240 prominently placed stories they pushed in the four weeks leading to election day.

The four candidates Big Tech protected included: Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill. The Big Tech news aggregators’ 14 related articles constitute less than one percent of 2,240 stories during that period.

Big Tech companies’ foray into news aggregation has effectively allowed them to cherry-pick stories that support their politicized narrative.

MRC Vice President for Free Speech America Dan Schneider identified what the Big Tech news aggregators are doing. “These giant corporations are trying to determine which stories and which narratives people read, and which ones they don’t. It is the future of media propaganda.” Schneider continued, “In the most recent elections, Google and the rest of these aggregators flagrantly acted to protect not only Jones, Sherrill, Spanberger and Mamdani but also down-ballot Democrats running in the same election,” said Schneider.

Jones, who just won his election as the top law enforcement official in Virginia, fantasized about the deaths of former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert’s children, saying that the family was “breeding little fascists.” He also texted about shooting Gilbert in the head twice and allegedly suggested that more police officers should die so that they would shoot fewer people. These horrifying messages were only one of Jones’ scandals.

After being charged with reckless driving for going 116mph in a 70mph zone, Jones did just half of his community service time at his own political action committee (PAC), according to the Daily Caller. If true, his misrepresentations to the judge presiding over his criminal case would likely constitute a separate crime.

However, despite legitimate concerns about whether Jones was fit to be one of Virginia’s top leaders, prominent Democrats, including Virginia’s new governor-elect, Abigail Spanberger, refused to call on Jones to drop out of the race. But the Big Tech news aggregators rarely allowed voters to learn about Jones’ sordid history or Spanberger’s failure to step away from him.

New Jersey’s Sherrill, on the other hand, has been accused of insider trading during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was also caught up in a cheating scandal at the Naval Academy, which led to her not being allowed to walk at graduation.

New York’s Mamdani has been shredded for his comments focusing on Islamophobia in his description of what the aftermath of 9/11 felt like for New Yorkers and for allegedly fabricating a story he used to illustrate his point. Mamdani claimed that his aunt had been harassed for wearing a hijab on the subway, but later claimed that he meant a more distant relative.

Few of the articles provided by the Big Tech aggregators that mentioned these scandals were actually focused on the scandals themselves. In fact, in some cases, a scandal was discussed in a single sentence or paragraph while missing key details. This was the case for a CNN piece pushed by AOL News and pieces by The Washington Post, and The Associated Press that were pushed by Google. While all three mentionedJones'"violent" statements in passing, not one noted that he wished death upon cops or children.

MSN pushed an article protecting Spanberger from the Jones fallout. The Post said that Spanberger had “resisted endorsing Jones” in the same sentence that quoted her mealy-mouthed answer in response to one of three consecutive moderator questions about whether she would continue to endorse Jones.

Stories like a Newsweek article pushed by MSN also mentioned Sherrill’s Naval Academy scandal but only briefly and near the bottom of the piece, as did a story promoted by Google News, while not a single Big Tech news aggregator provided stories on Sherrill’s insider trading scandal.

As for Mamdani’s outrageous 9/11 comments, most Big Tech aggregators ignored them. Yahoo! News offered nothing but a Salon article dismissively suggesting that the truth didn’t matter and was not known. Salon skipped right over the perversity of making the horrors of 9/11 about Islamophobia.

And as the 2020 election proved, hiding information like these scandals from voters has consequences. In 2020, the Hunter Biden laptop story was falsely dismissed as Russian disinformation by the media and consequently censored across social media. A poll commissioned by the Media Research Center after the election showed not only widespread Biden voter ignorance of the laptop scandal but also that enough of Biden’s supporters would have changed their votes to deliver Trump the presidency had they known of key Biden family scandals.

Beyond hiding these scandals, the news aggregators also boosted leftist content overall.

Yahoo! News promoted more radical articles from the leftist rag Salon (28) than all the election scandal coverage provided by all four aggregators combined. These included headlines about “queer journalists,” “MAGA’s false gospel,” and headlines hyperventilating about Trump, such as “The horror of Donald Trump’s America” or “Trump aims for one-party rule — and puts despotism at our doorstep.” Altogether, Yahoo! News provided nearly 11 times as many left-leaning articles as right-of-center articles.

Incredibly, Google’s aggregator used over 21 times more left-leaning sources than right-of-center choices. AOL News provided over 19 times as much left-leaning content, while MSN showed users almost seven times as much left-leaning coverage.

Methodology: The Media Research Center tracked the home pages of news aggregator websites AOL News, Google News, MSN and Yahoo! News from Oct. 7 through Nov. 3, 2025. Researchers analyzed the top 20 results for each day. Each of the four aggregators had 560 total results (2240 articles combined). Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here