Apple News Allegedly Hid DNC Debt Coverage Ahead of Midterms
Media Research Center claims Apple News suppressed stories on DNC financial struggles ahead of 2026 midterms.
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According to the Media Research Center (MRC), Apple News allegedly hid coverage of stories reporting on the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) financial struggles ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The MRC identified 78 stories about the DNC’s mounting debt, but none of them were promoted on Apple News’ top 20 stories from January 1 through September 28, according to an analysis obtained by the New York Post.
Apple News and Political Bias Allegations
Notably, September 28 marks just five weeks before the 2026 midterm elections — and nearly a year after the DNC disclosed that it is in millions of dollars in debt. MRC President David Bozell accused Apple News of running a ‘high-tech protection racket for the political left,’ stating that the service is suppressing coverage of the Democratic Party’s fundraising woes while promoting stories damaging to Republicans.
The MRC found that at least 14 stories about the DNC’s debt from outlets that Apple News typically promotes were also not featured, including USA Today, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Politico. Bozell noted that stories promoted by the service can generate anywhere from 1 million to 20 million page views.
DNC Debt and Financial Struggles
Interestingly, Apple News uses human editors to select many of the stories that appear on its platform — unlike Google News and Microsoft’s MSN, which depend heavily on algorithms to select and arrange stories. Late last year, the DNC blamed its nearly $16 million debt on the ill-fated 2024 Biden-Harris campaign. From there, Kamala Harris’ failed 2024 presidential campaign reportedly spent around $1.5 billion.
By the end of it, the Democratic National Committee was left with $20.5 million in debt. Then, in October 2025, the DNC took out a $15 million loan for gubernatorial elections. The DNC rang in 2026 with $17.5 million in debt, according to a report by the New York Times. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has $230 million in the bank and no debt.
Bozell criticized the media for previously lecturing Americans about ‘dirty money in politics’ whenever Republicans had the fundraising advantage, but now that Democrats are facing a financial mess of their own making, the story isn’t worth telling.
Source: Breitbart
