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 34 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 Ad Fontes Media: Very low factuality; 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.
Melania Trump reportedly expressed concerns to President Donald Trump that people she knew were being deported. The Wall Street Journal reported on November 5 that Trump subsequently told aides that Stephen Miller's immigration crackdown had gone too far.
Boing Boing reported it asOnly Melania's complaints could get Trump to look away from his ballroom (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Supermarkets in at least nine European countries experienced cyberattacks on their refrigeration systems on November 2. The European Union warned the incidents were a deliberate attempt to disrupt the food supply chain, leading to spoiled food and investigations.
Boing Boing reported it asHackers cooked supermarket freezers in seven European countries (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Scientists have identified an icy object, named 2026 ED138, orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. The object's size is estimated between 600 and 1,500 kilometres in diameter. Classification as a dwarf planet depends on further study.
Boing Boing reported it asTrans-Neptunian planet candidate hailed as "enormous new dwarf" (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Former FBI Chicago head Douglas DePodesta is suing the U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, and FBI director. He alleges he was forced to resign and scapegoated for failed immigration prosecutions, specifically the Broadview Six case.
Boing Boing reported it asDOJ tells judge probing prosecutor misconduct that Trump can make it go away (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
Boing Boing reported it asPatrick Stewart dead at 86 (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff damaged a World War II-era globe associated with Dwight D. Eisenhower while moving it to his Pentagon office. The artifact suffered a gash and its spherical portion detached from its mounting.
Boing Boing reported it asPriceless Eisenhower globe broken after Hegseth orders it moved to his office (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, has stated she is a lawyer. An investigation found no record of her being licensed to practice law in any US state or Washington D.C. She told reporters she passed the bar exam when she moved to China.
Boing Boing reported it asKatie Zacharia says she was "very careful" about calling herself a lawyer after failing the bar (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Mark Zuckerberg appeared on John Collison's Cheeky Pint podcast and was filmed drinking Guinness. His reaction, which involved a grimace and swishing the liquid, has gone viral on social media.
Boing Boing reported it asWatch Mark Zuckerberg enjoy a pint of Guinness (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Donald Trump told supporters at an Ohio rally that he examined Senator Jon Husted's body, including his rear end, to confirm he was a great athlete. The comments came after former coach Jon Gruden introduced Trump and mentioned playing college football with Husted.
Boing Boing reported it as“I don’t do this with men very often”: Trump describes examining Jon Husted’s ass, hands, and body (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
A naked, gold-plated statue of Donald Trump, titled 'Orange Plague' or 'King of Injustice', is on display in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, the sculpture depicts Trump on the shoulders of a man, holding a golf club. The exhibition was organised by Danish Left MEP Per Clausen and will remain until Thursday.
Boing Boing reported it asGolden statue of Donald Trump unveiled at European Parliament (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance stated that in the American context, socialism means replacing US workers with foreign labour and allowing boys to compete in girls' sports. His remarks, made during a press conference defending immigration policy, were met with widespread criticism.
Boing Boing reported it asJD Vance defines socialism with bigotry, not economics or socialism (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has proposed converting a section of his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat, similar to Camp David. The plan involves funding a lodging facility and would be reviewed by county officials.
Boing Boing reported it asTrump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Six soldiers died and dozens were injured in a drone strike at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1. Wounded soldiers and families of those killed are questioning Army leadership and preparedness, stating commanders were warned of the facility's vulnerability.
Boing Boing reported it asWounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Jared Kushner has publicly challenged a CNN report that linked his diplomatic work in the Middle East to investments in Israeli defense companies. He claims the network's own reporting contradicts its main assertions, a dispute that has been noted across various news outlets.
Boing Boing reported it asJared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has claimed his campaign rallies are generating "crowds and enthusiasm" and that Republicans are "flipping races all over the place." He also hinted at "big surprises coming up in a few weeks," while election simulations give Democrats a strong chance of retaking Congress.
Boing Boing reported it asFox cuts away while JD Vance argues with hecklers and the positions he assigned them (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
AI company Anthropic has filed for an initial public offering on Nasdaq, warning investors about potential catastrophic or existential risks to humanity from advanced AI systems. The company detailed these concerns in its IPO paperwork, dedicating a significant portion to risk factors.
Boing Boing reported it asAnthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IPOs (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
US Ambassador to China David Perdue claimed President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy American weapons. The White House has denied any plans to sell arms to China, stating that US law prohibits such sales.
Boing Boing reported it asTrump offered to sell arms to China during Xi summit (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Researchers are employing advanced technologies like LiDAR, drone imagery, and ground-penetrating radar at the Durupınar Formation in Turkey. Some claim the site, a boat-shaped mound, is the resting place of Noah's Ark, citing evidence of man-made structures.
Boing Boing reported it asUnderground robot probing hill thought by some to be Noah's Ark (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed that airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. He linked this to transgenderism and suggested it posed a danger to air travel.
Boing Boing reported it asSenator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries (opens Boing Boing in a new tab)
Donald Trump's remarks at a White House event were broadcast without sound by US television channels. This followed a boycott by major broadcasters in protest against the White House barring several news outlets from access.
Boing Boing reported it asNot so full of sound, but definitely fury—the fury they left him—signifying nothing (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
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
- 34
- Reports listed
- 34
- We could read
- 4
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
30 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 4 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 10 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Boing Boing ran the story anyway.
Across the 34 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 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 24 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 6 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 November 2026. Ratings pulled 7 October 2026.
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