Microsoft’s MSN displayed a surprising streak of neutrality over Memorial Day weekend, achieving almost perfect balance on MRC’s Digital News Tracker. But before you pat MSN on the back, or trust it to curate your news feed, a closer look reveals an uglier story.
For the first time since November 2025, when MRC began charting the Big Four News Apps, one of the news aggregators managed to maintain a four-day running average that did not lean left, utilizing AllSides media bias ratings. MSN played the center line between May 23 and May 26, balancing its feed between articles from left-leaning sources such as HuffPost, MS Now, The Independent, and Time, and right-leaning outlets. MSN achieved a 5.02 average rating on a scale of 0-10 (a “5” rating reflects ideological equilibrium).
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