Is defenceWeb biased?
defenceWeb is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is defenceWeb biased?
defenceWeb is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is defenceWeb left or right?
defenceWeb is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is defenceWeb reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for defenceWeb. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What defenceWeb has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with defenceWeb’s own report linked underneath.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi military landing ship and four escort vessels off Mocha or Hodeidah. The UK Maritime Trade Operations confirmed an attack in the area on 11 August killed at least seven crew members. Saudi Arabia has not responded to the claim.
defenceWeb reported it asHouthi attacks on shipping return to Red Sea as multiple seafarers killed (opens defenceWeb in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed defenceWeb. We asked on 18 August 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for defenceWeb.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- South Africa
- Official site
- defenceweb.co.za
- Seen publishing on
- defenceweb.co.za
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 18 August 2026
1 of those reports was 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. defenceWeb has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of defenceWeb: its report arrived a median of 10 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 August 2026. Ratings pulled 18 August 2026.
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