Dealbreaker media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Dealbreaker in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Dealbreaker biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Dealbreaker in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Dealbreaker left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Dealbreaker in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Dealbreaker reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Dealbreaker are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Dealbreaker has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Dealbreaker’s own report linked underneath.
Senator Eric Schmitt accused former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury, claiming Smith lied about attending an NBA game in Atlanta. Smith stated he was at a game in Maryland involving the Iowa Hawkeyes. Senator Amy Klobuchar highlighted Schmitt's mix-up of the teams.
Dealbreaker reported it asSenator Accuses Jack Smith Of Perjury Because Missouri Lawmaker Too Dumb To Know About The Iowa Hawkeyes (opens Dealbreaker in a new tab)
Italy has concluded its 12-year military presence in Iraq, with the final troops returning home. Defence Minister Guido Crosetto stated this marks a new phase in bilateral relations, with the withdrawal completed before the September 30 deadline.
Dealbreaker reported it asUS Withdraws Last Troops From Iraq (opens Dealbreaker in a new tab)
US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has denied reports suggesting a withdrawal of 25,000 to 40,000 troops from Europe. While the US is re-evaluating its military presence, Whitaker affirmed continued commitment to the continent.
Dealbreaker reported it asUS Withdraws Last Troops From Iraq (opens Dealbreaker in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump signed a bill on 2 September 2026 extending federal government funding until 11 December, avoiding a shutdown before the midterm elections. The House and Senate passed the measure with overwhelming majorities, though no left-rated outlet reported the story.
Dealbreaker reported it asHouse Passes Funding Stopgap, Averting Government Shutdown in October (opens Dealbreaker in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
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.
Mixed factuality
- Ad Fontes MediamixedCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Dealbreaker.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- dealbreaker.com
- Seen publishing on
- dealbreaker.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 3 September 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Dealbreaker is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Dealbreaker: its report arrived a median of 4 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 19 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 October 2026. Ratings pulled 3 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Dealbreaker, 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 Dealbreaker 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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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.