Blavity News & Politics media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Blavity News & Politics one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left. We have seen it on 28 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Blavity News & Politics biased?
The rating organisations do not give Blavity News & Politics one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Blavity News & Politics left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Blavity News & Politics one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Blavity News & Politics reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Blavity News & Politics are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Blavity News & Politics has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Blavity News & Politics’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asDemocrats Take The House And Senate: Here’s What That Means For Trump’s Agenda, Judges And Appointments (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asDemocrats Take The House And Senate: Here’s What That Means For Trump’s Agenda, Judges And Appointments (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Police responded to a youth soccer game in Florida after a league director called 911. The director stated the call was due to disruptive parents, while the child's mother claims the police were called because her son was too talented.
Blavity News & Politics reported it as‘They Called The Police On A Three-Year-Old’: Family Says Toddler Was Kicked Out Of Youth Soccer League For Being Too Good (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Mississippi's attorney general has determined that a police officer was justified in using deadly force in the June shooting death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. The shooting occurred during a response to a shoplifting call at a local Walmart.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asNo Charges For Officer Who Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley: What To Know About The Ruling, The Video And The Family’s Questions (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
The Social Security Administration has corrected records for nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers, adding missing death and citizenship data. The update follows concerns about improper benefit payments and a data security incident involving a third-party server.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asSocial Security Makes Major Updates To Its Records Database. Here’s What To Know (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
President Trump has publicly questioned Representative Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures after she revised her reported net worth from up to $30 million to approximately $100,000. The discrepancy has drawn attention from various media outlets, with some suggesting potential investigations into her finances.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asDays After Raiding Ilhan Omar’s Home, Trump Admin Is Reportedly Plotting To Strip Her Citizenship (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar announced she will move out of her D.C. residence after federal agents conducted a four‑to‑five‑hour search, seized 17 items and sparked safety concerns. The raid is linked to a fraud probe into her family’s immigration records.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asDays After Raiding Ilhan Omar’s Home, Trump Admin Is Reportedly Plotting To Strip Her Citizenship (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Students and alumni of Lincoln University have filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri, seeking $549 million in damages. They allege decades of systematic underfunding of the historically Black land-grant university, which they claim has harmed its academic programs and facilities.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asThis HBCU's Students Are Suing Missouri For $549 Million: Here’s What Could Change If They Win (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Jimmy Kimmel has drawn attention to Donald Trump's suggestion that Iran could 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego. Kimmel contrasted the White House and Fox News's defence of Trump's remarks with their criticism of his own jokes, calling the situation 'glaring hypocrisy'. He stated he would report Trump to the FCC.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asWhy Trump's Iran War Comments On Los Angeles And San Diego Are Drawing Alarm Across Party Lines (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell University gang rape investigation. The governor removed the local district attorney from the case, citing a lack of trust. Allegations from 2024 have resurfaced, contributing to palpable tension on campus.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asLetitia James Takes Over Cornell Rape Investigation Amid Reports DA Never Saw Student's Full Police Interview (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Donald Trump told attendees at a White House Hispanic Heritage Month event that the construction site for his planned ballroom had holes so large that only a Hispanic person could survive a fall into them. He also touted his administration's economic record and border security.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asTrump Makes 'Only A Hispanic Could Survive' Joke During Hispanic Heritage Month As GOP Support Among Latino Voters Slides (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Senator Eric Schmitt accused former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury, claiming Smith lied about attending an NBA game in Atlanta. Smith stated he was at a game in Maryland involving the Iowa Hawkeyes. Senator Amy Klobuchar highlighted Schmitt's mix-up of the teams.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asGOP Senator's Atlanta Hawks, Iowa Hawkeyes Mix-Up Backfires On Attempt To Catch Jack Smith In A Lie Tied To Fani Willis (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
During a civil‑rights lecture at the University of the District of Columbia law school, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemned the Supreme Court’s emergency docket as problematic, citing institutional costs and a privileged fast‑track that favours certain litigants. No right‑rated outlet covered the remarks.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson Says Supreme Court's Emergency Docket Is Being Abused. Here's What That Means (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
The California Supreme Court has ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to return approximately 650,000 ballots seized from a November 2025 special election. The court ruled Bianco's seizure was unlawful, siding with the state's Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asA Right-Wing Sheriff In California Seized 650,000 Ballots, And The State's Ruling On It Could Impact Elections Nationwide (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Philadelphia teacher Hannah Gann admitted to lying about her racial and family background, claiming to be Black and Palestinian when she is white and Jewish. Her deception has caused anger and distrust among activist groups she worked with.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asWhite Jewish Woman Apologizes For Pretending To Be Black Palestinian Activist (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance's antifraud task force is removing hundreds of thousands of enrollments from the Affordable Care Act's public exchanges. The action targets 760,000 individual accounts for allegedly unauthorized and fraudulent applications, with an estimated $2.2 billion in taxpayer funds expected to be saved.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asTrump Admin Cancels Obamacare Enrollment For 750,000 More People (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Donald Trump's plan to significantly alter national mail-voting rules. Following the decision, voting rights groups announced a voter protection campaign, while the Department of Justice and Homeland Security pursue separate election-related investigations.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asNAACP Takes Mail-In Voting Fight To Supreme Court (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a coalition of Democratic-led cities and states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule. The rule would allow immigration officials to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asMamdani, Other Mayors Sue Trump Over Rule Denying Green Cards To Immigrants Who Use Public Aid (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
The Trump administration has removed language that criticized the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery from a sign at the site and the Defense Department website. The changes come as part of an effort to reshape historical portrayals of the Civil War.
Blavity News & Politics reported it asLanguage Critical Of Confederacy At Arlington National Cemetery Removed By Trump Admin (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
A 20-year-old Haitian student died by suicide in Springfield, Ohio, after his Temporary Protected Status was terminated. An advocacy group stated the decision to end TPS contributed to his death.
Blavity News & Politics reported it as'They Put An Ankle Monitor On Him And Everything Changed': Haitian Student's Death Tied By Family To ICE, End Of TPS (opens Blavity News & Politics in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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
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Mixed factuality
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Who owns it
- Blavity Inc.Corporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Official site
- blavity.com
- Seen publishing on
- blavity.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
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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
- 28
- Reports listed
- 28
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
27 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 10 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Blavity News & Politics ran the story anyway.
Across the 28 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Blavity News & Politics: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 November 2026. Ratings pulled 10 October 2026.
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