Not much unlike the lopsided gerrymandering popping up across the country in Democrat-run states from California to Virginia, the Big Four News Apps are tilting the media and information map to almost completely favor one side, the left. Take the state where the Media Research Center is headquartered, for example. Democrats’ redistricting effort in Virginia could effectively turn a relatively balanced state with a six-Democrat to five-Republican jurisdictional split into a 10-to-1 jurisdictional tyranny.  As many Americans likely saw in reports across the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News) on Wednesday morning, Democrats may have scored a narrow redistricting referendum victory on April 21 that could do just that. And while an April 28 Virginia Supreme Court denial of a request to “stay” an injunction against the referendum perhaps offers a glimpse of hope for Republicans living in the state, even if the referendum vote is ultimately upheld, at least there was actually a democratized process by which citizens could make their voices heard. Not so for the news and information being pumped out by default on the Big Four News Apps. MRC Free Speech America research on the Big Four News Apps makes one thing clear: the news aggregators are overwhelmingly pushing elitist media outlets promoting a left-wing agenda.  So, yes, a 10-to-1 ratio is bad if you’re in the minority in Virginia. But if you’re getting news and information from the Big Four News Apps in America, the ratio is much worse. Try 14-to-1! That’s the left-to-right ratio getting pumped out by the Big Four News Apps onto Americans’ digital devices. A recent MRC Special Report gives the breakdown: “Throughout the first five months of MRC-collected data, the Big Four News Apps promoted a whopping 7,265 articles from left-leaning outlets out of a total 10,338 articles from AllSides-rated outlets in their morning editions. That means the Big Four News Apps promoted leftist sources 70% of the time. Compare that gaudy figure to the paltry 539 articles (5%) from right-leaning outlets, and the overt bias of the Big Four News Apps becomes abundantly clear.” The first half of April didn’t look much better. From the same report: “The Big Four News Apps promoted 799 articles (65%) from left-leaning outlets out of a total of 1,222 articles from April 1 - April 18, 2026. Meanwhile, the news aggregators promoted a paltry 72 articles (6%) from right-leaning outlets during the same period.” And with the Big Four News Apps collectively reaching over 100 million Americans each week, the volume of articles from elitist media getting pushed to the masses is massive. But it’s not just the sheer volume that the Big Four News Apps use to stack the deck against conservative thought. As noted earlier, it’s also the messaging that is being pushed from a leftist perspective.  One-sided messaging coupled with volume can pack a horrible punch.  MRC President David Bozell put it plainly in his recent Op-Ed with the Washington Examiner headlined “Rig the headlines, shift the polls.” Bozell wrote, “If millions of Americans are exposed to a steady stream of negative framing, stripped of context and alternative perspectives, it should not be surprising when polling begins to reflect that environment.” Look no further than two recent MRC Special Reports for just how lopsided the messaging is.  The first, headlined “Special Report: 634 Left vs. 41 Right — While Trump Fights Iran, Big Four News Apps Attack Trump,” exposed the Big Four News Apps for favoring leftist outlets over right-leaning outlets in Iran war coverage. From the Special Report: “Despite the unprecedented success of the U.S.-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.” Drilling down more into the individual articles the news aggregators shared reveals just how potent messaging can be. One glaring example from the Iran war coverage: Google News promoted leftist rag The Atlantic, which attempted to explain “Trump’s Logic for Blockading the Blockaders” in the Strait of Hormuz. The subheader from the outlet read, “He wants to use economic pain to weaken Iran—even if that threatens the global economy.” At least three other articles, from right-leaning outlets (American Thinker, Hot Air and New York Post) could have actually provided a glimpse into what Trump’s logic might have been, but Google News did not deign to share those stories with its viewers. The second MRC Special Report, headlined “Special Report: 0 Out of 255 Stories: Google News, Microsoft’s MSN & Yahoo News Ignore SPLC Scandal,” detailed how the three news aggregators ignored the Southern Poverty Law Center DOJ indictment altogether in their top stories in the mornings after the scandal broke. Similarly glaring, as revealed in this piece, were the articles that the Big Four News Apps refused to promote in the morning editions. Fox News, the New York Post, Breitbart News, Newsmax and The Daily Wire all wrote on the SPLC indictment, but none of them made the top 20 stories in the Big Four News Apps’ morning editions. The Big Four News Apps aren’t just biased—they’re digital news gerrymanderers, rigging the information landscape and drowning out conservative voices. This is the opposite of fair play, suppressing right-leaning outlets that millions of Americans rely on for balanced coverage and ensuring that the elitist media’s left-wing narratives dominate unchecked. At MRC Free Speech America, we're sounding the alarm loud and clear: Americans deserve transparency and balance, not tech tyranny. And we will continue to expose the Big Four News Apps for their bias and suppression of right-leaning outlets.