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Exclusive | It’s not just Apple News — left-wing bias rampant on Google News, Yahoo and Bing: bombshell study

Nypost · · 939 words · By Thomas Barrabi
Political polarization Media Bias and Tech Platforms
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17 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Just 1% of Google News articles in non-customizable sections of Google News come from outlets that rank as right-leaning, according to a bombshell study by AllSides, a nonpartisan group that classifies news outlets according to their political leanings.”
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Multiple web search results cite an AllSides study claiming that only a small percentage of Google News articles in non-customizable sections come from right-leaning outlets. The evidence points to a specific claim regarding the 1% figure from AllSides.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google LLC ( , GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus, stylized as G+ or g+) was a social network owned and operated by Google until it ceased operations in 2019. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google Search (also known simply as Google or google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Web by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search use…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search
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“That’s compared to 73% from outlets deemed left leaning, according to the audit of major news aggregators that curate articles from around the internet.”
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The claim regarding 73% of articles being left-leaning is presented as part of the same AllSides audit context as Claim 0. While the context is supported by the search results mentioning AllSides audits, the specific figure of 73% is not independently corroborated by a second source.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The A-side and B-side are the two sides of vinyl records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings, which in purely technical terms of recording …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AllSides Technologies Inc. is an American company that estimates the perceived political bias of content on online written news outlets. AllSides presents different versions of similar news stories fr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllSides
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — All Sides may refer to: All Sides (O.A.R. album), 2008 All Sides (LMNT album), 2002 AllSides, a company that evaluates media bias All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU-FM talk show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Sides
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“Google News’ left-wing news bias is even worse than Apple News, whose in-house editorial team curated just 2% of its articles from right-leaning outlets, compared to 50% from the left, according to the study.”
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This claim compares Google News' bias to Apple News' bias using specific percentages (2% right, 50% left). While the evidence discusses bias in both Google and Apple News from AllSides, the specific comparative figures stated in this claim are not independently corroborated by a second source.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google LLC ( , GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini (also known as Google Gemini and formerly known as Bard) is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the large language model (LL…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gemini
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google News & Weather was a news aggregator application developed by Google. It was available on the Android and iOS operating systems. The app featured a card-based interface and was similar to both …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News_&_Weather
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“AllSides focused on sections of the Apple News app that can’t be personalized by users.”
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Two separate web search results confirm that AllSides focused its review of Apple News on sections that users cannot personalize, aligning with the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An apple is the round, edible fruit of an apple tree (Malus spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (Malus domestica), the most widely grown in the genus, are cultivated worldwide. The tre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, best known for its consumer electronics, software and online services. Founded in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
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“Microsoft’s Bing News exhibited a similar editorial slant, drawing just 5% of its articles from conservative media outlets and 72% coming from left-leaning outlets.”
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The specific figures (5% conservative, 72% left-leaning) for Bing News are reported in the web search results, attributing them to the AllSides study. However, no second independent source corroborates these exact percentages.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. One of the first multimedia stars, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Microsoft Bing (also known simply as Bing) is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft, and developed by Microsoft AI. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stephen Leo Bing (March 31, 1965 – June 22, 2020) was an American businessman, film producer, investor, and philanthropist. He had business interests in property and construction and was the founder o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bing
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“Yahoo News drew just 2% from the right and 53% from the left.”
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The specific figures (2% right, 53% left) for Yahoo News are reported in the web search results, attributing them to the AllSides study. However, no second independent source corroborates these exact percentages.
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web search NEUTRAL — Yahoo News has become the leader in presenting partisan news among the Big Four News Apps. In February, it promoted AllSides-rated center stories only six percent of the time. In March, Yahoo News dou…
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/heather-moon/2…
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web search NEUTRAL — The study also highlighted an imbalance in political coverage, particularly leading up to the 2022 midterm elections. Searches for “election” yielded fewer results from outlets classified as center, r…
https://san.com/cc/allsides-study-finds-left-leaning-bias-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — In the month before the election, 70% of Google News articles about the Democratic nominee came from left-rated outlets. For the Republican, that figure was just 45%.
https://expertbeacon.com/google-news-bias-problem-analyzing-…
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“In the study, each aggregator was given a bias ratio, with negative numbers denoting a leftward bias, positive numbers a rightward bias and 0.0 denoting perfect balance.”
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The concept of using a bias ratio (negative for left, positive for right, 0.0 for balance) is mentioned in the context of bias analysis in web search results. However, the claim presents this as a definitive rule from 'the AllSides study,' and this specific definition is not independently confirmed by a second source.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bias and Variance are two fundamental concepts for Machine Learning, and their intuition is just a little different from what you might have learned in your ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuBBz3bI-aA
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web search NEUTRAL — Positive bias indicates a. rightward shift in memory, negative bias a leftward shift.excluded zero (CI=[1.25%, 23.8%]), indicating that the. apparent midpoint was shifted in the direction of the start…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263927156_Bias_in_s…
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web search NEUTRAL — 1. AllSides’ pitch: engineered balance, bias ratings and a “balanced feed”.bias‑aware products (AllSides, Ground News) from discovery‑oriented apps that favour engagement and trending content [4] [9].
https://factually.co/fact-checks/media/compare-allsides-to-o…
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“Google News ranked as the most biased aggregator with a bias ratio of -1.62.”
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The specific bias ratio of -1.62 for Google News is cited in the web search results, attributing it to the study. However, no second independent source corroborates this exact numerical ratio.
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web search NEUTRAL — Statistics such as the bias ratio and first order autocorrelation are sometimes used to indicate the potential presence of these problems. While the Treynor ratio considers only the systematic risk of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
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web search NEUTRAL — Картинки. Войти. Google. Расширенный поиск.
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web search NEUTRAL — Parents Google “Is my daughter overweight?” roughly twice as frequently as they Google “Is my son overweight?” Just as with giftedness, this gender bias is not grounded in reality. About 30 percent of…
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/google-tel…
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“Apple News (-1.57), Bing News (-1.55) and Yahoo News (-1.55) all had ratios that placed them solidly in the “lean left” category.”
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Although the claim references specific ratios and categories for Apple News, Bing News, and Yahoo News, the provided evidence search yielded no direct results or context to confirm the specific ratios (-1.57, -1.55, -1.55) or the resulting 'lean left' categorization for all three sources simultaneously.
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“Among the most popular news aggregators, SmartNews (-0.79), NewsBreak (-0.42), RealClearPolitics (0.17) and AllSides itself (0.09) all received “center” bias ratios, meaning they provide articles from a balanced range of sources.”
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The claim lists specific bias ratios for SmartNews, NewsBreak, RealClearPolitics, and AllSides. While the evidence gathered for this claim index returned no results, the evidence provided for other claims suggests that specific ratios are often cited from the same study, but this specific set of ratios cannot be verified.
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“Based on content alone, Drudge received a -0.91 bias ratio – placing it within AllSides “center” designation.”
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“However, when combined with the audit of Drudge’s headlines, which are often sharply critical of Trump, the aggregator’s bias ratio swung to -1.74, which placed it to the left of Google News.”
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“White House Wire, launched in 2025 by the Trump administration, was unsurprisingly ranked as “lean right” with a bias ratio of 2.50 – higher than any other aggregator tracked in AllSides’ analysis.”
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“The number of articles reviewed for the analysis varied by aggregator, ranging from 140 (for Yahoo News) to 315 (for RealClearPolitics).”
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“AllSides conducted its audits between June and December 2025.”
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“The site’s team of reviewers focused on sections of each aggregator’s feeds that were curated by humans rather than algorithms.”
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“For the analysis, AllSides used a multi-partisan panel of experts — with two members from the left, two from the center and two from the right – that are trained to spot media bias, as well as blind surveys of regular Americans.”
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