Boing Boing media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Boing Boing on the left. We have seen it on 14 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Boing Boing biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Boing Boing on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Boing Boing left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Boing Boing on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Boing Boing reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Boing Boing are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Boing Boing has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Boing Boing’s own report linked underneath.
Researchers have identified a new wild cat species, Leopardus tilcayo, in Bolivia's Yungas forest. The small feline, measuring about 45-46 cm and weighing 1.4 kg, is the first new wild cat species described in more than 100 years.
Boing Boing reported it asA tiny new wild cat species was just found in Bolivia (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
A Government Accountability Office report found the Trump administration spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers in 2025. The initiative, known as DOGE, led to a 435% increase in such leave, with an estimated $6.7 billion spent on a deferred resignation program.
Boing Boing reported it asDOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b as the youngest exoplanet discovered to date, with an age of less than one million years. The Jupiter-sized planet, located 450 light-years away, is still within its natal disk of dust and gas, prompting a re-evaluation of planet-formation models.
Boing Boing reported it asBaby planet observed orbiting young star 453 light years from Earth (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
A newly unveiled statue of Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters was defaced with red paint. The vandalism occurred days after the statue's unveiling and coincided with the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination.
Boing Boing reported it asCharlie Kirk statue scrubbed clean of red paint, back on display (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Analysis of prehistoric human remains from Indonesia has revealed evidence of habitual drug use dating back approximately 25,000 years. This predates agriculture and suggests humans may have been consuming psychoactive substances much earlier than previously understood.
Boing Boing reported it asResearchers found evidence of drug use 25,000 years ago (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
An American flag was unfurled at sunrise at the Pentagon to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ceremony honored the 184 military personnel and civilians who died at the Pentagon.
Boing Boing reported it asDroopy Don shows his respect for 9/11 victims by apparently dozing through their names (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in the United States more than doubled between 1990 and 2023, rising from 11,361 to 23,126. The increased risk applies to multiple cancer types, including breast, colorectal, and head and neck cancers.
Boing Boing reported it asStudy finds alcohol-linked cancer deaths have doubled since 1990 (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory is designed to study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets, collecting vast amounts of data to deepen our understanding of the universe.
Boing Boing reported it asRoman Space Telescope launches to study space in wide-angle view (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy teased an upcoming "unprecedented fraud crackdown" on X, indicating a coordinated effort with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. The announcement is expected Monday.
Boing Boing reported it asMTV's Sean Duffy threatens companies that hire truckers who don't speak English (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
The FBI has ended its policy of automatically disqualifying all applicants with past sexual encounters with prostitutes. The bureau will now consider some candidates holistically, though certain past behaviours remain disqualifying.
Boing Boing reported it asFBI drops ban on hiring people who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
A federal judge is considering a legal challenge to block President Donald Trump's name from being inscribed on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The dispute centers on whether the center's board can add the name after a judge ruled only Congress has that authority.
Boing Boing reported it asDOJ: Kennedy Center has a fever, and the only prescription is more TRUMP (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
The US Navy is reviewing plans to rename a Ford-class aircraft carrier currently designated USS Doris Miller, a Black sailor recognised for heroism at Pearl Harbor. Sources say internal discussions include honouring Donald Trump, which would be unprecedented for a sitting president.
Boing Boing reported it asNavy considers replacing a Black Pearl Harbor hero with a fat, fraudulent loser (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Interim Sen. Darline Graham, appointed after her brother Lindsey Graham’s death, said during a debate that national security is ‘not my thing’. The comment came in response to a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea, and has drawn criticism from her opponent’s supporters ahead of the 25 August runoff.
Boing Boing reported it asDarline Graham makes the case against Darline Graham in one answer (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor and former Bush adviser, is the early frontrunner to replace outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, though multiple sources say the selection process remains open. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met Jennings at a Washington steakhouse, but other names, including Natalie Harp, are also under consideration.
Boing Boing reported it asSeems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die (opens Boing Boing 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.
Low factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- Happy Mutants LLCIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Mill Valley, Marin County, California, United States
- Official site
- boingboing.net
- Seen publishing on
- boingboing.net
- 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
- 14
- Reports listed
- 14
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
13 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 4 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Boing Boing ran the story anyway.
Across the 14 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Boing Boing’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 30 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Boing Boing, 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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