MSN claims users can personalize their news feed, but the digital news gatekeeper’s list of “recommended publishers” to choose from includes 15 left-leaning outlets compared to only two right-leaning ones. Microsoft’s MSN touts its ability to personalize your news feed, claiming that it will provide “[t]he information you expect, more personal than ever.” MRC Free Speech America researchers investigated which outlets MSN recommends, and the results were as biased as you’d expected.  Not only does MSN push leftist outlets over right-leaning outlets in its list of “recommended publishers” at a rate of 15 to 2, it also entirely prevents users from choosing to include three of the top five right-leaning news sites in their personalized feeds. MRC researchers found that MSN does not allow users personalizing their feed to select three of the five most-visited right-leaning sites according to the Press Gazette’s list of the Top 50 news websites in the U.S. in December. According to Press Gazette, Fox News, New York Post, Daily Mail, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit were the top five right-leaning outlets, but alarmingly, only the first two of these outlets were even available to be added to the MSN “personalized” feed. Searches for the other three outlets returned zero results in the MSN ecosystem. MRC researchers examined MSN’s list of “recommended publishers” that can be added to a user’s news feed with just a click. This list contained 100 recommendations. Of these, 42 were outlets that have been given a bias rating by AllSides Media and two (Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire) are magazines MRC has repeatedly called out for leftist bias in past reporting.  While the majority of the outlets MSN recommended (27) have a center rating, there was a clear preference for leftist outlets versus right leaning ones. MSN recommended only two outlets on the right: Fox News, and the Washington Examiner. Conversely, MSN promoted 15 leftist outlets, including radical leftist outlets like AlterNet, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.  MRC President David Bozell explained why MSN’s rejection of right-leaning outlets is even worse than it appears when he spoke with Lara Trump on the Right View Podcast:  “You can go on the MSN News portal, and you can say, ‘Well I would like to choose a different publication to be showcased on my MSN.’ Well, they’ll give you a bunch of recommended publications. You know what’s not on there? Breitbart. You know what’s not on there? Daily Mail. But there’s like, WAVY in Norfolk,10, that you could choose from, or WKRP in Cincinnati that you can choose from. And that’s great, right? I mean, I’m all for having local news thriving, surviving, all those things. That’s great. But you’re telling me that Daily Wire, you know, shouldn’t have a place on MSN’s ecosystem? The Washington Times does not have a channel that you can choose from on MSN’s ecosystem. You have to basically sink or swim with The Washington Post if you’re a Washingtonian.” Recommendations encompassed a variety of recipe web sites such as Tiny Batch Cooking and EatingWell. MSN also recommended leftist tabloid-style magazines like Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and  People that have, for example, compared President Donald Trump to Hitler, pushed abortion or even promoted sexual fetishes. MSN’s bias is particularly concerning because it is a news aggregator, or platform that gathers articles from multiple media sources into a single place. Aggregators are a growing source for people to get their news. According to a report from the Reuters Institute, “engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows,” particularly in the United States.  Methodology: On Jan. 28, 2026, MRC researchers examined the list of recommended publishers on the MSN News tab in a “clean environment,” using the Brave browser and its paid VPN feature to avoid influence from cookies or prior search history on the results. MRC researchers also checked whether outlets that were not on the recommended list could be added to the personalized feed. The bias of the recommended outlets was evaluated using AllSides media bias ratings, which classify outlets as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right.” MRC also added two magazines it has reported on repeatedly (Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, which were not rated by AllSides) for this analysis.   Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.