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Special Report: 634 Left vs. 41 Right: While Trump Fights Iran, Big Four News Apps Attack Trump

Luis Cornelio : May 4, 2026
MRC Newsbusters

"Never before has the US military been so effective. It is a spectacular military campaign, but you wouldn't know it if you've been getting your news from these digital propagandists." -MRC Vice President of Free Speech America Dan Schneider

[Newsbusters.org] EXCLUSIVE: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sent the media into a frenzy after comparing their anti-American smears to the Pharisees' plot against Jesus. His point wasn't far off, but he left out a key piece: the Big Four News Apps amplified that same narrative. (Image: via MRC Newsbusters)

The Media Research Center found that since the day after the Iranian conflict began, Apple News, Google News, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo News have launched a 50-day barrage targeting President Donald Trump and US military operations against the Islamic regime with 634 articles from left-leaning outlets compared to a paltry 41 articles from right-leaning outlets. For example, Google News promoted a story from The New York Times headlined, "Trump's Iran Threats Look Like Self-Incrimination for Potential War Crimes."

Despite the unprecedented success of the US-led action, the news aggregators' curation of stories ensured that most Iran coverage in its top 20 morning editions from March 1 through April 19 came from left-leaning outlets, often using sensational, negative and fear-driven framing that undercut the United States and undermined the Trump administration's efforts to win the war.

MRC's Findings: 

In response to these findings, MRC President David Bozell said: "We're looking at one of the most effective military campaigns in modern history, Iran's navy crippled, its air force grounded, its leadership dismantled, yet the Big Four News Apps, alongside the elitist media, are working overtime to undermine President Trump. It should outrage every American that Trump and Secretary Hegseth are fighting an information war at home while preventing Iran's regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon."

How the Big Four News Apps Tilted Iran War Coverage Left, Suppressing the Right 

Hegseth has long rebuked the elitist media for unfairly smearing the administration and peddling attacks against the military. The barrage has been relentless, ranging from false accusations about US strikes on drug-trafficking vessels to distorted reporting on internal personnel matters and wartime casualties.

Trust in media is collapsing, perhaps thanks at least in part to the Big Four News Apps. The MRC has long documented persistent bias across these platforms, which wield outsized influence over how Americans consume news. 

Drawing more than 550 million visits each month, Apple News, Google News, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo News act as powerful gatekeepers, amplifying the left's agenda-driven narratives while largely sidelining conservative perspectives.

This pattern of bias has played out across major political fights, from spinning the issue of border security and covering up for California's hospice fraud to hiding scandals connected to Democratic officials. This time, the Big Four News Apps' focus has turned to the US armed conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In total, MRC identified approximately 897 stories related to the US-Iran conflict. Of those, more than 70% came from left-leaning sources, while fewer than 5% came from their right-leaning counterparts. The imbalance, including the suppression of center outlets, meant millions of Americans who access news on their phones, computers and digital devices were largely exposed to one-sided coverage of one of the most consequential geopolitical conflicts of the modern era.

Hegseth has been sounding the alarm on this for years. In his bestselling book, The War on Warrior, he laid out what he sees as a sustained cultural campaign against the US military, driven in large part by the same elitist media institutions shaping public perception. Those outlets now enjoy prominent placement across the Big Four News Apps.

Apple News, Google News, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo News have promoted some centrist and, to a very limited extent, right-leaning outlets within their top 20 selections, including Fox News. Still, the overall presence of center and right-leaning voices is relatively small in the broader dataset compared to the volume of elitist media outlets and wire services, most of which skew their reporting to the left. In coverage of the Iran conflict, the Big Four News Apps promoted the following outlets the most:

  1. Reuters — 81
  2. Yahoo-owned sites — 76
  3. CNN — 67
  4. The Associated Press — 66
  5. The Wall Street Journal — 55
  6. The New York Times — 45
  7. CBS News — 44
  8. The Guardian — 40
  9. Fox News — 38
  10. NBC News — 33
  11. The Washington Post — 32
  12. Al Jazeera — 27
  13. Bloomberg — 26
  14. BBC — 22
  15. Apple News-owned pages — 22
  16. Salon — 19
  17. The Hill — 18
  18. CNBC — 18
  19. Axios — 18
  20. Newsweek — 18
  21. NPR — 16
  22. ABC News — 15
  23. Politico — 14

For Iran war coverage in particular, the Big Four News Apps did not promote the following outlets a single time over 50 days: the New York Post, The Daily Wire, The Washington Times, The Federalist, American Spectator, American Thinker, National Review, Washington Examiner and Washington Free Beacon, to name a few. 

MRC found that many of the headlines and sources elevated by the digital news gatekeepers reflected consistent partisan framing, often aligning with narratives more commonly associated with Democratic talking points than neutral, fact-based reporting. (Image: Unsplash-hartono creative studio)

For instance, on April 16, Google News featured The Atlantic to explain the Trump administration's rationale for its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The piece by The Atlantic, however, offered little in the way of explanation and instead tore into the administration's move. By contrast, several other outlets covering the same development were excluded. The New York Post, American Thinker and Hot Air all had strong analyses to explain what The Atlantic purported to address, but failed.

This pattern spans nearly every major aspect of the conflict. Coverage from right-leaning sources is virtually nonexistent across the Big Four News Apps. Instead, coverage on Apple News, Google News, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo News—including oil prices, inflation, national security developments and broader international implications—was shaped by a predominantly left-leaning media ecosystem.

The Big Four News Apps' Coverage Distorted Major Developments in the Iran Conflict

Some of the headlines promoted across the Big Four News Apps painted an apocalyptic view of the conflict by emphasizing terror alerts in the US, while other headlines painted the Trump administration as unprepared or unhinged... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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