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Aftonbladet media bias and reliability

Media Bias/Fact Check places Aftonbladet on the left. We have seen it on 34 published stories of ours.

LeftMixed factuality

The short answers

Is Aftonbladet biased?

Media Bias/Fact Check places Aftonbladet on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.

Is Aftonbladet left or right?

Media Bias/Fact Check places Aftonbladet on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.

Is Aftonbladet reliable?

The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Aftonbladet are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.

What Aftonbladet has been covering

Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Aftonbladet’s own report linked underneath.

Who says so

One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. 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.

Mixed factuality

Who owns it

  • SchibstedMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
  • Swedish Trade Union ConfederationOtherdirect owner

Where it publishes from

Publishes from
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Official site
aftonbladet.se
Seen publishing on
aftonbladet.se
Access
Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
Wikipedia
Entry

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
34
Reports listed
35
We could read
1
First seen
4 August 2026

34 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.

On 14 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Aftonbladet ran the story anyway.

Across the 34 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Aftonbladet’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 29 hours after the earliest report we logged.

Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.

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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Aftonbladet publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.

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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.

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