Civil Beat media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Civil Beat one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Civil Beat biased?
The rating organisations do not give Civil Beat one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Civil Beat left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Civil Beat one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Civil Beat reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Civil Beat are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Civil Beat has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Civil Beat’s own report linked underneath.
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot regulations ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The court's order leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the rules.
Civil Beat reported it asHawaiʻi voting groups cheer as high court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions (opens Civil Beat in a new tab)
Earthjustice filed a federal lawsuit on 18 August 2026 to halt the US government’s auction of 33 million acres of seabed off American Samoa for deep-sea mining. The suit argues the plan threatens endangered species and violates environmental laws, while the Trump administration seeks to expedite permits despite international calls for a moratorium.
Civil Beat reported it asNonprofit Sues To Block Auction Of American Samoa Waters For Deep-Sea Mining (opens Civil Beat in a new tab)
The U.S. Defense Department has extended the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. until January 2029, with an estimated cost of $1.4 billion. The move, ordered by President Donald Trump in 2025, has drawn criticism from local officials and Democrats over costs and city autonomy.
Civil Beat reported it asGuard Deployment To Washington Into 2029 Will Cost Roughly $1.4B (opens Civil Beat in a new tab)
Kirill Basin, a Democratic candidate for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District, was arrested on 3 August 2026 after allegedly threatening beachgoers with a knife and implying he had a gun. A video shows him being knocked unconscious by another man. He faces two felony charges and $1 million bail.
Civil Beat reported it asLongshot Congressional Candidate Arrested After Maui Beach Altercation (opens Civil Beat 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Honolulu Civil Beat Inc.Independentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
- Official site
- civilbeat.org
- Seen publishing on
- civilbeat.org
- 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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Civil Beat ran the story anyway.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Civil Beat: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 September 2026. Ratings pulled 9 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Civil Beat, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Civil Beat 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.