Study: Nearly 60% of Americans get their news from these four aggregators

A new study from a conservative media watchdog group has found that nearly 60 percent of Americans get their news from at least one of the Big Four news aggregators: Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News and Microsoft’s MSN.

Just the News reports that, according to MRC’s tracking and research data, these four applications sit on nearly every smartphone in America and serve as a dominant news window for an estimated 58 percent of Americans.

According to the MRC’s special report, released earlier this month, all four aggregators exhibit a heavy left-wing bias by overwhelmingly surfacing mainstream and left-leaning publications while filtering out conservative outlets.

Out of 487 top stories last February on Google News, the MRC reports that only 11, or 2.2 percent, were right-leaning; 314, or 64.5 percent, were left-leaning and 162, or 33.3 percent, were in the center.

David Bozell, who leads the Media Research Center, reported that after analyzing one month of stories on Apple News, his group found that of 620 stories that Apple had promoted on its top feeds, “not a single one of those stories was from a right-wing news source. Not one. Zero.”

According to the MRC, out of the 620 top stories on Apple News last January, there were zero right-leaning ones and 440 left-leaning.

Meanwhile, articles on popular websites such as Fox News and the New York Post were never promoted.

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