Google News Nearly Shuts Out Right-Leaning Stories in February

Only a handful of right-leaning stories slipped through Google News’s iron grip on information domination. While the tech giant pushed 314 left-leaning stories, its gatekeepers only permitted 11 right-leaning articles to make the occasional appearance in the platform’s morning editions last month.

MRC uncovered that just 2% of Google News's top morning stories in February came from sources rated right-leaning by media ratings firm AllSides. Google's leftist bias is only further underscored by the fact that it completely shut out right-leaning outlets for over half the month. 

MRC’s Findings of Google News’s Top 20 Morning Editions in February: 

• Google News suppressed right-leaning articles, which accounted for just 11 stories (2.2%). 
  • For 17 days, Google News presented zero right-leaning articles. 
  • When Google News did feature a right-leaning outlet, it only provided one per day, but even then, it buried the lone right-leaning outlet article beneath a bevy of elitist media offerings nearly half of the time (45%).
• Google News featured 314 left-leaning stories (64.5%) and 162 stories (nearly 33.3%) rated “center” by AllSides.