A new study claims Google’s news aggregation platform heavily favored left-leaning sources in its top morning headlines last month.
Researchers at the Media Research Center examined the top 20 stories in the morning edition of Google News throughout February and found that right-leaning outlets accounted for just a tiny share of the content.
According to the analysis, only 11 of 487 featured stories — about 2.2 percent — came from outlets categorized as right-leaning by the media ratings firm AllSides.
Don’t miss the stories that matter.
Get Sean’s breaking news alerts — free, direct to your inbox.
By comparison, the report said 314 stories (about 64.5 percent) came from outlets rated left-leaning, while 162 stories (roughly one-third) were classified as politically “center.”
The study also found that Google News featured no right-leaning outlets on 17 days during the month, and when such sources did appear, they were typically limited to one story per day.
Even then, the report said, those articles were often placed lower in the rankings. According to the analysis, the lone right-leaning story was buried beneath other outlets roughly 45 percent of the time.
The study identified Fox News, New York Post, Daily Mail, and The Bulwark as the only right-leaning outlets appearing in the sample.
Critics of the tech giant say the findings reinforce longstanding concerns about ideological bias in major digital platforms.
“Google can pretend to hide behind its algorithm all it wants,” said David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center. “The fact that it followed Apple News’s lead in suppressing right-leaning outlets tells you all that you need to know about the search giant’s rampant anti-conservative bias.”
Bozell urged the company to change its practices.
“Google must come clean and start operating fairly,” he said. “It can do so by not discriminating against right-leaning outlets.”
Google has long maintained that its news results are driven by automated systems designed to highlight relevance, authority, and timeliness rather than political perspective.
More over at MRC:
🚨 SPECIAL REPORT: Only 2% of Google News’s top stories in February came from right-leaning media.
Google doesn’t share news, it spreads propaganda. https://t.co/PIaCHlgqYb
— Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) March 12, 2026
