Al Jazeera media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Al Jazeera as leaning left. We have seen it on 678 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Al Jazeera biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Al Jazeera as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Al Jazeera left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Al Jazeera as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Al Jazeera reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Al Jazeera are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Al Jazeera has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Al Jazeera’s own report linked underneath.
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.
Al Jazeera reported it asSullivan vows to honour Alaska race outcome, US judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Donald Trump reportedly became angry upon learning his former lawyer, Alina Habba Mildon, secured a $50 million contract with a Venezuelan billionaire family. He suggested she donate a portion of the money to his future presidential library.
Al Jazeera reported it asTrump slams ex-lawyer’s $50m deal with pardoned banker’s family (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Serbian authorities have arrested Marko Kricak, head of the criminal police directorate, and Bosko Sekulovic, police commander for fighting organised crime. They are suspected of abusing their offices and failing to uphold duties, which allegedly prejudiced a former police chief. The arrests follow an investigation into a murder.
Al Jazeera reported it asSerbia arrests police chief over abuse of office allegations (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his coalition's parliamentary majority following recent elections. Neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc nor the opposition secured the 61 seats needed for a majority, leading President Isaac Herzog to begin consultations with parties to form a government and avoid further elections.
Al Jazeera reported it asIsrael election: When will government be formed, who will lead it? (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
President Donald Trump attended a Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Saturday, arriving dressed as himself. He told reporters that his costume preparation took only ten minutes, while other guests spent significantly longer.
Al Jazeera reported it asTrump at Halloween party ‘as himself’ says he’s ‘in no hurry’ with Iran (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
A 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana was shot and killed in the Bronx. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stated that President Donald Trump has agreed to grant a visa to the victim's mother.
Al Jazeera reported it asMamdani says Trump to grant visa to mother of boy killed in Bronx shooting (opens Al Jazeera 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.
Al Jazeera reported it asRubio says Trump administration did not help Bolsonaro flee Brazil to US (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
A Yemeni staff member of the UN Human Rights Office, Mohammad el Shami, has died in Houthi custody. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an independent investigation into his death.
Al Jazeera reported it asUN demands investigation after staffer’s death in Houthi custody in Yemen (opens Al Jazeera 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.
Al Jazeera reported it asTrump loses legal battle over Epstein-linked Wall Street Journal case (opens Al Jazeera 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.
Al Jazeera reported it asLegal filing questions Trump’s claims of non-citizen voting in California (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul. Discussions focused on bilateral relations, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and security in the Black Sea region. A joint press conference was anticipated following their meeting.
Al Jazeera reported it asTurkiye’s Erdogan urges Russia and Ukraine to stop Black Sea attacks (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
At the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, Syrian foreign minister Asaad al‑Shaibani said Damascus is evaluating entry into the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, and warned that Israel has launched more than 1,000 attacks on Syria in under two years.
Al Jazeera reported it asSyria considering entry into Mecca defence pact, says foreign minister (opens Al Jazeera 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.
Al Jazeera reported it asIran warns of unfettered retaliation if attacked as mediators try for peace (opens Al Jazeera 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.
Al Jazeera reported it asRival US and Russian resolutions on Western Sahara fail at UN (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
Al Jazeera reported it asWhat latest polls reveal as early voting surges ahead of US midterms (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
The United States cancelled a planned group photo at the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Atlanta due to deep rifts among member nations. Several European diplomats objected to standing alongside Russia's top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, leading to the cancellation.
Al Jazeera reported it asG20 drops group photo as Europeans refuse to stand with Lavrov (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Qatari mediators have returned to Tehran in an effort to broker a deal between the United States and Iran. The talks are coordinated with Washington, and Qatar has presented a draft peace plan, though a senior Iranian official has rejected it.
Al Jazeera reported it asQatari officials in Iran in bid to revive ceasefire deal with US (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Dockworkers in 22 countries launched a coordinated strike on October 30, 2026, protesting arms shipments and the use of ports for military purposes. Organizers estimate significant disruption to Mediterranean cargo and billions of dollars in freight.
Al Jazeera reported it asWhat can a global strike of dockworkers achieve for Gaza? (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Russia's Ministry of Defence announced missile and drone strikes targeting military production and logistics infrastructure in Ukraine. Kyiv reported one death and fourteen injuries from an attack on the Southern Bridge in the capital.
Al Jazeera reported it asRussian oil refinery struck as Ukraine renews drone attacks (opens Al Jazeera in a new tab)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has thanked the Trump administration for capturing President Nicolas Maduro, calling it a 'floodgate to freedom'. Returning to Venezuela after 10 months in exile, she urged for presidential elections in 2027 and criticised a recent US oil deal.
Al Jazeera reported it asVenezuela’s Machado lauds Trump for ‘freedom’, urges 2027 elections (opens Al Jazeera 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.
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
- 678
- Reports listed
- 721
- We could read
- 175
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
546 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 175 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 296 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Al Jazeera ran the story anyway.
Across the 677 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Al Jazeera’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 26 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 2 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 November 2026. Ratings pulled 1 November 2026.
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