Special Report: Yahoo News — Fake News or Fake Re-Balance?
18th May 2026
The Big Four News Apps follow a predictable script: elevate articles from left-leaning outlets, suppress their right-leaning counterparts, while giving prime real estate to some of the most radical news outlets on the left. Yahoo News typically pushes that script even further. In April, the news aggregator appeared to mask that pattern by flooding its platform with BBC content, but the underlying bias quickly resurfaced.
Yahoo News has a record of sidelining not only stories from the right but also center-leaning sources that may offer balance. Its strong preference for the most extreme outlets on the left — Salon, The New Republic and The Daily Beast — has resulted in it being scored by the Media Research Center’s Digital News Tracker as the second-most leftist of the Big Four News Apps over the November 2025 through April 2026 period.
The aggregator dramatically ramped up its publication of BBC stories in April — which is still technically classified by AllSides as centrist — in an apparent bid to offset its extreme left-leaning bias rating. However, this tactic failed to deliver true balance as Yahoo News sacrificed right-leaning stories to elevate the scandal-plagued BBC, even though the British broadcaster has shifted leftward since AllSides’ last evaluation in July 2024.