More than 150 million Americans have an iPhone. Each comes pre-loaded with Apple News, making it one of the most widely read news platforms in the country. But according to shocking new reports, Apple has systematically suppressed right-leaning publications while boosting liberal outlets, turning the app into a tool of political propaganda.

The Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, analyzed every story featured by the app during the mornings of January 1 to January 31. Of the 620 top stories featured, 440 were published by left-leaning outlets. The remainder came from centrist or unaffiliated sources. Zero stories were published by right-leaning outlets.

The Media Research Center relied on media ratings from AllSides, a nonpartisan organization that convenes analysts from across the political spectrum to evaluate outlet bias. In a separate study, the group analyzed stories featured on Apple News over a two-week span in October and found zero articles from right-leaning publications, while 54 percent came from left-leaning sources.

We’ve seen this playbook before. For more than a decade, social media platforms suppressed conservative speech, banning users for criticizing Democrats’ COVID lockdowns, the far-left Black Lives Matter movement, and even then-candidate Joe Biden. That censorship not only undermined the free and open debate that has sustained our nation for 250 years, but it also affected major political outcomes. Just days before the 2020 election, platforms suppressed reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which detailed the Biden family’s extensive foreign entanglements. A post-election poll found that 17 percent of Biden voters said they would have changed their vote if they had known.

In the case of Apple News, the app's apparent bias should come as no surprise. The team at Apple that curates its news feed is led by a former editor at the left-wing New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine. As the Times itself reported in 2018, she has “quietly become one of the most powerful figures in English-language media” by shaping the news stories millions of Americans see every day.

This blatant tipping of the scales cannot continue—which is why the Trump administration and Republicans are demanding accountability. Earlier this month, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook calling on the company to review its policies and warning that the systematic suppression of viewpoints—regardless of political affiliation—could violate consumer protection rules. Last week, I sent my own letter to Cook demanding answers about how featured articles on Apple News are chosen, how the company reviews or audits those decisions, and how third-party news outlets can appeal unfair exclusions from its platform.

Americans increasingly rely on services like Apple News to provide them with information, and they deserve access to perspectives across the political spectrum. Under President Trump, the era of Big Tech censorship is over—and we will not stop fighting until these companies abandon their blatant bias against conservatives.