ABC News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give ABC News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 689 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is ABC News biased?
The rating organisations do not give ABC News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is ABC News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give ABC News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is ABC News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for ABC News are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What ABC News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with ABC News’s own report linked underneath.
Governor Mike Braun said Monday he will not grant clemency to death‑row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit, who is scheduled for lethal‑injection execution on Thursday for the 2010 murders of Alyssa and Caleb Lynch. Weisheit’s lawyers argue the pharmacy supplying the drugs is on indefinite probation.
ABC News reported it asIndiana governor says execution will go ahead Thursday against man who killed 2 kids (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Wilson Joseph, leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, has written to the UN Secretary General requesting dialogue and mediation. He expressed concerns that El Salvador's deployment of troops after the disappearance of four Salvadoran aviation technicians could escalate violence.
ABC News reported it asPowerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Ryanair is considering significant cost-cutting measures, such as temporarily freezing employee salaries, as rising fuel prices and the impact of the "Iran war" increase operational costs. The airline estimates its oil costs could rise by €2 billion next year.
ABC News reported it asRyanair CEO anticipates European airfare prices up as much as 20% next year (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Heavy rainfall has caused flash flooding across the Southwest, prompting mandatory evacuations in parts of Arizona and Colorado. The San Juan River in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, is forecast to reach historic levels, while Sedona, Arizona, residents are being urged to leave their homes.
ABC News reported it asFlash floods trigger evacuations in Arizona and Colorado amid heavy rains in southwest (opens ABC News in a new tab)
The UAE hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough in US-Iran negotiations but is prepared for the worst, according to Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president. He spoke at a conference in Manama on November 1, 2026.
ABC News reported it asUnited Arab Emirates says military solutions offer no quick off-ramps to crisis with Iran (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution aimed at ending the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara and establishing a new political one. A subsequent Russian proposal to extend the existing mission for a year also failed to pass.
ABC News reported it asUN’s peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends after 35 years following US-Russia standoff (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Prime Minister Mark Carney stated he had a 'good conversation' with U.S. President Donald Trump regarding trade. Carney indicated that Canadian and U.S. representatives will work in the coming weeks to finalize a trade deal, which he said would create jobs and boost affordability.
ABC News reported it asCanadian Prime Minister Carney reports progress in trade talks with Trump days before US midterms (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens appeared at a Detroit church with Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. This occurred after internal party tensions escalated over an advertisement linking U.S. support for Israel to grocery prices.
ABC News reported it asTurmoil in Michigan's Senate race as Democrat Haley Stevens appears with Republican Mike Rogers (opens ABC News in a new tab)
The Trump administration has announced $15 billion in aid for agriculture producers, intended to mitigate increased expenses for diesel and fertilizer. The package includes direct payments, guaranteed loans, and commodity purchases, with details emerging in the weeks before the midterm elections.
ABC News reported it asTrump administration promises US farmers $15 billion in weeks before the midterms (opens ABC News in a new tab)
China's Coast Guard is harassing shipping with patrols off Taiwan's east coast, according to Taiwan's Coast Guard. Taipei says the patrols aim to exert a fictional jurisdiction and has sent its own ships to monitor the situation.
ABC News reported it asTaiwan accuses China of harassment after standoff between coast guard ships (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Thousands gathered in Novi Sad, Serbia, to mark the second anniversary of a railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people. The tragedy, which occurred on November 1, 2024, is linked to protests that contributed to the fall of the ruling party.
ABC News reported it asSerbia marks the second anniversary of a train station tragedy that fueled student protests (opens ABC News in a new tab)
The Trump administration's online accounts shared images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween background around a Black man accused of food assistance fraud. The posts have drawn criticism for being inflammatory, coinciding with a government campaign on immigration enforcement.
ABC News reported it asTrump administration's social media posts ahead of elections criticized for being inflammatory (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Brooke Rollins posted a Halloween‑themed image on X depicting a Black man as a “SNAP Fraudster” shortly before the 2026 midterm elections. Critics called the post racist, while federal prosecutors charged Mercedes Reshard New, known as “Shawty Dred,” with fraud totalling more than $4 million.
ABC News reported it asTrump administration's social media posts ahead of elections criticized for being inflammatory (opens ABC News in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied facilitating Flávio Bolsonaro's departure from Brazil to the United States. While Rubio stated President Trump authorized Bolsonaro's entry, he asserted the US government was not involved in arranging the travel itself.
ABC News reported it asRubio says the US government did not facilitate Bolsonaro’s flight to the US (opens ABC News in a new tab)
A fire damaged the Senatobia Police Department building on Saturday morning. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local agencies are investigating the incident. The department has been at the centre of controversy following an officer-involved shooting in June.
ABC News reported it asFederal officials investigate fire at beleaguered police department in Mississippi (opens ABC News in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
ABC News reported it as'Grasping at straws': Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein letter (opens ABC News in a new tab)
An analysis of a Trump administration list of alleged noncitizen voters in California found that 42% of the names could not be found on the state's voter rolls. The study, conducted by UCLA data analysts, also indicated that thousands of U.S. citizens may have been incorrectly flagged.
ABC News reported it asMore than 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens not on California's voter rolls: analysis (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Protests erupted outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw following the suspension of its president and deputy. Police detained three individuals after some demonstrators threw objects at officers. Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated his government's duty is to restore the rule of law.
ABC News reported it asTusk defends suspension of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal president as protesters gather again (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Iran's army has warned that any new US attack would spread the conflict to a wider geographical area. The warning comes amid diplomatic efforts to avert further hostilities and as both the US and Israel hold crucial elections.
ABC News reported it asIranian leader threatens immediate response to potential attack, and other Mideast news (opens ABC News in a new tab)
The US has expelled a Cuban diplomat following a heated exchange at the UN General Assembly. Ambassador Mike Waltz stated the diplomat shoved and attempted to assault an American staffer, leading Secretary of State Marco Rubio to sign the expulsion papers.
ABC News reported it asCuba welcomes home diplomat expelled from US after unusual altercation at the UN (opens ABC News in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- The Walt Disney CompanyMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 689
- Reports listed
- 707
- We could read
- 137
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
570 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 137 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 135 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and ABC News ran the story anyway.
Across the 689 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than ABC News’s on 15 of them. Overall it filed a median of 15 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 3 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 2 November 2026.
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