Having already rejected traditional mediums for news and information, Americans may be falling into Big Tech’s carefully-laid media trap.  As NewsBusters reported in October of last year, 7 in 10 adults have either “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%) in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. But where are Americans getting their news now?  Odds are good that one source for news consumption — whether actively sought out or passively ingested — is at least one of the Big Four News Apps: (1) Apple News, (2) Google News, (3) MSN or (4) Yahoo News. Google News, MSN and Yahoo News, are all ranked inside the top 15 news websites in the United States as of December 2025, according to Press Gazette. But don’t feel bad for Apple News.  Two of the four aforementioned leftist news sources come preloaded on nearly every Americans’ smartphone, before users even have the opportunity to select their preferred apps. And according to Exploding Topics, Apple phones have the lead. As of April 2025,  iPhone (57.68%) and Android (42.06%) hold an apparent duopoly, with approximately 99.74% of the U.S. market share split between them. If the phone is an Android, then Google News was preloaded on the device. If it’s an iPhone, then the cellphone has Apple News.  And that’s just the start. Even if an American finds themselves in that tiny sliver of the population (less than 1%) that doesn’t have either a Google or Apple cellular device, that minority may still be using an email account associated with one of the Big Four News Apps.  Have a Microsoft (MSN) account or Microsoft Outlook email address? How about a Yahoo account or email address? If the answer is, “Yes,” to either, then, guess what: the Big Four News Apps are pushing elitist media propaganda to you too. Microsoft account and Outlook email address users are being fed a steady stream of MSN’s elitist media offerings, while Yahoo account and email address users are heaped on with elitist media from Yahoo news, Yahoo Finance and all of its offerings. Perhaps unlike the elitist media purveyors of old, the leftist drivel that the Big Four News Apps are pushing is hiding in plain sight. Focusing on Apple News over the month of December 2025, MRC researchers found that Apple News suppressed right-leaning media outlets throughout the entire month. From the report:  “Apple News failed to link to a single right-leaning media outlet among its top 20 daily articles during the month of December. Out of the 620 opportunities analyzed at approximately 10:00 a.m. each day by the Media Research Center, Apple News whiffed every single time.  “Instead, dozens of times Apple News published articles from leftist outlets like The Washington Post, NBC News and NPR and center outlets like Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC. “You have to go all the way back to Nov. 5 of last year to find the last time Apple News deigned to link to a single right-leaning site. That story was from British outlet The Telegraph covering the atrocities taking place in Sudan: ‘In Sudan's genocide, Only Those Who Pay Survive.’ Ironically,  Apple hid the article behind the Apple News+ paywall and only paid subscribers could read the full article.”  Google News was up to its own shenanigans in recent months.  For six straight weeks, Google News suppressed coverage of the widespread fraud allegations in the state of Minnesota. The online digital gatekeeper largely kept its viewers from seeing any new revelations on the Minnesota fraud scandal, only publishing four out of 840 stories in its top 20 morning editions on the matter between Nov. 28, 2025 and Jan. 9, 2026. Not one of the stories it published on the Minnesota fraud allegations came from a right-leaning outlet, and three of the stories actively sought to vilify Trump administration enforcement actions, underscoring just how devious Google News’s apparent censorship was during the analyzed period. This blatant suppression of critical stories and conservative viewpoints by the Big Four News Apps demands accountability.  With Americans increasingly relying on the Big Four News Apps for news and information, MRC will continue to shine a light on their suppression of right-leaning media perspectives, as seen in Apple News’s complete exclusion of right-leaning outlets in December 2025 and Google News’s near-total blackout of reporting on the fraud allegations in Minnesota. MRC remains steadfast in its mission to expose these digital gatekeepers for suppressing free speech and information while pushing the leftist narratives of the elitist media, and MRC will work tirelessly to protect free speech both at home and abroad, ensuring that Big Tech cannot silence dissenting voices or control the flow of information unchallenged.

Other countries should emulate the “America First” model, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told globalist leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. “We are here to make a very clear point: globalization has failed the West and the United States of America,” Sec. Lutnick explained, addressing politicians, businessmen and societal leaders from around the world: “It’s a failed policy. It is what the left has stood for – which is export, offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world and the world is a better place for it. “The fact is it has left America behind. It has left the American workers behind.” Instead, other nations should adopt their own version of the Trump Administration’s “America First” policy by prioritizing their countries, Lutnick said: “We are here to say is that ‘America First’ is a different model – one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first [and] we can have policies that impact our workers.” “Sovereignty is your borders. You’re entitled to have borders,” Lutnick said, warning of the harm caused by embracing globalist ideology: “You shouldn’t offshore your medicine. “You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors. “You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you. “You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation – and if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best ally. Okay?” Instead, European countries are making themselves dependent on foreign regimes that are hostile to them, Sec. Lutnick said, using self-destructive environmental ideology as an example: “Why would Europe agree to be Net Zero (emissions) in 2030 when they don’t make a battery? They don’t make a battery. “So, if they go 2030, they are deciding to be subservient to China, who makes the batteries.”   Globalization has FAILED. Secretary Lutnick at the World Economic Forum: “The Trump Administration and I are here to make a very clear point—globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy… and it has left America behind.” America is… pic.twitter.com/Urxl7pZwSe — U.S. Commerce Dept. (@CommerceGov) January 20, 2026  

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