Daily Star media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Daily Star one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Daily Star biased?
The rating organisations do not give Daily Star one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Daily Star left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Daily Star one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Daily Star reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Daily Star 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 Daily Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Daily Star’s own report linked underneath.
A 25-year-old man died and his 26-year-old wife is missing following a collision between their fishing boat and a water taxi in Venice. The couple had been married for three months.
Daily Star reported it asNewlywed husband dies and bride missing after boat crash with 'five-tonne taxi' (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Donald Trump told reporters he was 'happy' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had left the US for the UK, calling them disrespectful to the Royal Family. He said he would not have taken them back if he were in the royal family, citing his good relationships with Queen Elizabeth and King Charles.
Daily Star reported it asDonald Trump sends nasty message to Harry and Meghan as they leave USA (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
A secret Russian-Iranian programme codenamed C430L, launched in 2023, aims to develop supersonic cruise missiles capable of threatening US aircraft carriers. The project involves Russian missile experts and leaked correspondence, with no evidence of deployment yet.
Daily Star reported it asRussia Secretly Helping Iran Develop 'Supersonic' Missiles (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Republican congressman Thomas Massie has accused Prince Andrew of committing sex crimes in the US during a speech in the House of Representatives. Massie named Andrew as one of Jeffrey Epstein's 'co-conspirators' while calling for an investigation into the late financier's associates.
Daily Star reported it asAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor accused of 'committing sex crimes in the US' (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
The United States has reportedly threatened to withdraw support for the UK's sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. This pressure tactic is reportedly aimed at compelling London to increase defence spending to meet NATO's 5% of GDP commitment.
Daily Star reported it asTrump could go to war with Burnham over Falklands if major promise not kept (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Thieves stole more than 50 gold objects from the Treasure of Villena, a Bronze Age collection, in a raid lasting approximately four minutes. The estimated value of the gold alone is €1.7 million.
Daily Star reported it asPirates pinch £4m hoard of precious metal from outer space in just four minutes (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
Daily Star reported it as384 tourists missing, including Brits, in flash floods as dozens feared dead (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
Daily Star reported it as384 tourists missing, including Brits, in flash floods as dozens feared dead (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
FIFA confirmed on 17 August 2026 that Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour had left the organisation after he criticised President Gianni Infantino's plan to sell a stake in FIFA's tournament business. Lamour called the plan 'the project of one person' and said staff had been 'deceived'.
Daily Star reported it asFIFA's COO 'sacked' after he criticised Gianni Infantino's World Cup plan (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
Daily Star reported it asInside Hayden Panettiere's tragic life – brother's death, health battles and Hollywood 'abuse' (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his royal titles in 2025 over Epstein links, remains on a confidential government list for a royal ceremonial funeral. Whitehall sources say the arrangement is part of the UK’s 'bridge' plans for royal deaths, sparking criticism from politicians and Epstein’s victims’ lawyers.
Daily Star reported it asShamed ex-Prince Andrew 'on secret list for royal honour' when he finally dies (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Seven explosions occurred within about 20 minutes in Dubai’s Jebel Ali industrial area on 5 August 2026, with videos showing thick black smoke. No official explanation or casualty figures have been released. Right-rated outlets linked the blasts to regional tensions.
Daily Star reported it asDubai tourist hotspot hit with explosions as 'booms' ring out near Palm Jumeirah (opens Daily Star in a new tab)
Serbia's football association withdrew support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid, joining European opposition after FIFA's failed $4.2 billion tournament stake sale. The reversal came 70 days after Serbia initially backed Infantino, with the association calling for new leadership to restore trust in global football governance.
Daily Star reported it asGianni Infantino chairs crisis talks with FIFA staff in Morocco (opens Daily Star 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
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
- Reach plcMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- dailystar.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- dailystar.co.uk
- 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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
11 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 2 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Daily Star cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Daily Star: its report arrived a median of 11 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Daily Star, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Daily Star 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.
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