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Just six years after the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world and unleashed the governmental and societal tyranny of draconian lockdowns, mask mandates, economic upheaval, digital speech suppression and more, the Silicon Valley tech giants are at it again — silencing a story that impacts an untold number of Americans regarding their health and personal autonomy.  

Zero. That's the number of stories Apple News, Google News and Microsoft's MSN showed the morning after it was revealed that former U.S. Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci quietly kept COVID-19 mRNA shot reactions—including miscarriage concerns—from the American public. Fauci, according to Fox News, publicly claimed that there were "no red flags" among the thousands of pregnant women who received the mRNA injections.

MRC's Newsbusters reported a similar result for the "Big Three" broadcasters. ABC News, CBS News and NBC News all failed to include this in their Monday nightly news broadcasts or their Tuesday morning broadcasts. 

Rather than sharing the unsettling revelations recovered from text messages on Fauci's government-issued phone, the Big Three News Apps (Apple News, Google News and Microsoft's MSN) rallied to share anti-Trump propaganda.

Perhaps most disturbingly, Apple News and Google News did share news and information on vaccines, but it was only to undermine President Donald Trump's "Gold Standard" executive order on the childhood vaccine schedule. The two news aggregators shared three stories, undercutting the Trump MAHA initiative—and all from foreign-based outlets.

Apple News promoted a piece from leftist, UK-based outlet The Guardian with the headline, "Trump signs executive order with plan to reduce number of recommended childhood vaccines." But it's the subheadline that reveals the left's narrative, "MMR vaccine would be broken into separate shots under order, putting a financial and logistical strain on families."

Google News took a slightly different approach, instead relying on the World Health Organization (WHO) to do its dirty work. The foreign-based Reuters piece Google News promoted this morning had the following headline: "WHO defends immunisation schedules after Trump orders fewer childhood shots." The agenda of the promoted piece is made clear in its three-bullet summary: The first bullet decried what Trump did to the childhood vaccine schedule; the second undermined Trump's actions via the WHO; and the third alleged that unnamed "Doctors warn fewer recommendations could raise disease risk and confuse parents." 

Google News also pushed a second story to undercut Trump's executive order from leftist, UK-based outlet BBC. The piece headlined, "Trump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots," claimed that "multiple studies have found no connection between the shots and autism" to suggest that Trump's executive order was without merit.

Microsoft's MSN, for its part, did mention "jabs" in one of the stories it promoted among its top 20 morning stories, but it wasn't talking about the COVID-19 mRNA shots. Rather, it pushed an anti-Trump piece from The Hill, headlined, "GOP senators rally behind Thune in response to Trump jabs at leader."

A quick browser search demonstrated that the Big Three News Apps could have shared any number of stories about Fauci's COVID-19 mRNA injection miscarriage concerns.

MRC researchers used the Brave browser and VPN to perform a search using the phrase "fauci miscarriage" and found at least eight stories from AllSides-rated right-leaning outlets, including from Daily Mail, Fox News (2), PJ Media, Red State, The Gateway Pundit and Townhall Media via Twitchy; at least three from AllSides-rated left-leaning outlets (CBS News, CNN and The Washington Post) and at least one from an AllSides-rated center outlet (Newsweek) on the first page of the browser's search results alone. The Big Three News Apps could have promoted any one of these stories but chose not to do so.

Methodology: Using MRC's Digital News Tracker, MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories promoted by Apple News, Google News and Microsoft's MSN on August 11, 2026 at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC Researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as "left," "lean left," "center," "lean right" or "right" to determine the overall bias presented by the Big Three News Apps and analyzed the results.  

MRC researchers separately utilized the Brave privacy browser with VPN to perform a Brave search of the phrase "fauci miscarriage" and analyzed the results on the first page only.