Is Arizona Daily Independent biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Arizona Daily Independent on the right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Arizona Daily Independent biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Arizona Daily Independent on the right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Arizona Daily Independent left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Arizona Daily Independent on the right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Arizona Daily Independent reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Arizona Daily Independent are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Arizona Daily Independent has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Arizona Daily Independent’s own report linked underneath.
A hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration records from Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2020, including sensitive data on 930 individuals. The FBI confirmed the breach and urged prosecution, but four prosecutors refused to press charges, closing the case by 2023.
Arizona Daily Independent reported it asA Hack Hacked: Sunday’s Comic (opens Arizona Daily Independent in a new tab)
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.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckrightCheck it
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- American Daily Independent News Network LLCIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
- Official site
- arizonadailyindependent.com
- Seen publishing on
- arizonadailyindependent.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 10 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Arizona Daily Independent cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Arizona Daily Independent: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 August 2026. Ratings pulled 10 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Arizona Daily Independent, 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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Arizona Daily Independent 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.