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Common Dreams media bias and reliability

AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Common Dreams on the left. We have seen it on 213 published stories of ours.

LeftHigh factuality

The short answers

Is Common Dreams biased?

AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Common Dreams on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.

Is Common Dreams left or right?

AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Common Dreams on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.

Is Common Dreams reliable?

The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Common Dreams are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.

What Common Dreams has been covering

Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Common Dreams’s own report linked underneath.

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

Who owns it

  • Common Dreams, Inc.Independentdirect owner

Where it publishes from

Publishes from
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
Official site
commondreams.org
Seen publishing on
commondreams.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
213
Reports listed
220
We could read
55
First seen
3 August 2026

165 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 55 we could open, not on everything it published.

On 52 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Common Dreams ran the story anyway.

Across the 213 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Common Dreams’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 23 hours after the earliest report we logged.

Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 3 November 2026.

Other outlets rated the same way

Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Common Dreams, 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 Common Dreams 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.

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