Is Al Jazeera biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Al Jazeera as leaning left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Al Jazeera Media NetworkMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- QatarGovernmentparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Doha, Qatar
- Official site
- aljazeera.com
- Seen publishing on
- aljazeera.com
- Access
- Free to read
- 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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Al Jazeera ran the story anyway.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 3 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Al JazeeraLeans leftHigh factualityFrom Trump to El-Sayed: US Arabs in Michigan centre Palestine in politics (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Doha, Qatar
Our report: Michigan Senate Primary Pits El-Sayed Against Stevens in Democratic Test
- Al JazeeraLeans leftHigh factualityPentagon boosts Patriot, THAAD interceptor output amid stockpile strain (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Doha, Qatar
Our report: US signs framework deal to triple Patriot missile production
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.