AJC media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give AJC 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 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is AJC biased?
The rating organisations do not give AJC 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 AJC left or right?
The rating organisations do not give AJC 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 AJC reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for AJC 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 AJC has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with AJC’s own report linked underneath.
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia, including Riyadh International Airport and an Aramco refinery in Rabigh. Explosions were heard over the Saudi capital. The Saudi-led coalition announced strikes on military targets in Yemen.
AJC reported it asExplosions heard in Saudi capital and Riyadh airport, and other Mideast developments (opens AJC in a new tab)
The UAE Attorney General has ordered an investigation into a Flydubai flight that diverted to Saudi Arabia after a cockpit altercation. The probe will examine circumstances and motives, including potential terrorist activity. Israeli officials are investigating possible Iranian involvement.
AJC reported it asIn-flight attack on FlyDubai pilot puts aviation security measures under fresh scrutiny (opens AJC in a new tab)
Satellite data has detected a large fire and thermal anomalies near Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline. Unconfirmed reports suggest Houthi forces may be responsible, though Saudi authorities have not confirmed the incident.
AJC reported it asIraq confirms attacks on Saudi pipeline originated from Iraqi territory and other Mideast news (opens AJC in a new tab)
A super PAC linked to Donald Trump, No Going Back PAC, has reported spending approximately $21 million on independent expenditures in competitive Senate and House races. The largest Senate expenditures targeted Democratic candidates.
AJC reported it asTrump defends Iran war, slams Democrats and promises cash at Republicans' midterm convention (opens AJC in a new tab)
Over 250 current and former members of Congress have urged the US Supreme Court to deny a request to pause a ruling blocking parts of a USPS mail-in voting rule. They argue the rule and a related executive order unconstitutionally infringe on Congress's authority over federal elections.
AJC reported it asRaffensperger urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s mail-in ballot plan (opens AJC in a new tab)
Israel is considering expelling British officials from a US-led coordination centre for post-war Gaza, with reports suggesting other European nations could also be affected. This follows the expulsion of Dutch representatives over alleged anti-Israel measures.
AJC reported it asUK warns against Israel removing it from Gaza ceasefire center, and other news in the Middle East (opens AJC in a new tab)
Prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have condemned streamer Hasan Piker for remarks described as antisemitic. The condemnations follow Piker's calls for violence against capitalists and his comments regarding Jewish support for Israel.
AJC reported it asDemocratic criticism mounts over Hasan Piker comments (opens AJC 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
- Cox EnterprisesMedia 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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 27 August 2026
7 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and AJC ran the story anyway.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than AJC’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 2 days after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 12 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 October 2026. Ratings pulled 26 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as AJC, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where AJC 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.