Heather Moon

‘Tis the season for Drag Queen Story Hour at the local library, but don’t worry, artificial intelligence chatbots will assure users that it’s all family-friendly fun. Only Grok took a definitive stand for parents and kids. MRC researchers asked seven AI chatbots—Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Grok by xAI, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Perplexity AI—whether children should participate in Pride Month celebrations.

Apple News played favorites when it covered the Republican primary elections held in several states in May, seizing on leftist media coverage to push an anti-Trump narrative. The news aggregator relied on 63% leftist media coverage compared to only 13% right-leaning coverage.

Vice President J.D. Vance announced the Trump administration had identified massive amounts of federal funds lost to fraud, contributing to a historic record for the administration. Big Tech largely chose not to cover the news. MRC researchers asked Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok what the top 10 news stories were from May 24 through May 28.