El Pais media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give El Pais one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 449 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is El Pais biased?
The rating organisations do not give El Pais one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are 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 El Pais left or right?
The rating organisations do not give El Pais one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are 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 El Pais reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for El Pais are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What El Pais has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with El Pais’s own report linked underneath.
Antonio Navarro Wolff, a key figure in Colombia's political transition and a co-president of the 1991 National Constituent Assembly, has died at age 78. His family confirmed his passing on November 1, 2026, in Bogotá. Wolff had a long career as a guerrilla commander, politician, and public servant.
El Pais reported it asAntonio Navarro Wolff Dies, One of the Parents of the Colombian Constitution (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens appeared at a Detroit church with Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. This occurred after internal party tensions escalated over an advertisement linking U.S. support for Israel to grocery prices.
El Pais reported it asThe 2026 ‘Midterms’, Live Trump, on the Democratic Breakup in Michigan: “This Is Something BIG” (opens El Pais in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied facilitating Flávio Bolsonaro's departure from Brazil to the United States. While Rubio stated President Trump authorized Bolsonaro's entry, he asserted the US government was not involved in arranging the travel itself.
El Pais reported it asMarco Rubio Denies that the United States Facilitated the Flight of Flávio Bolsonaro to Miami (opens El Pais in a new tab)
An Ebola outbreak in Africa has surpassed 10,000 cases and 4,900 deaths, prompting warnings from the Africa CDC director general that the virus could spread globally. Health ministers agreed to keep borders open while strengthening coordination.
El Pais reported it asEbola Already Causes 5,000 Deaths and 10,000 Cases While the World Looks the Other Way (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Russia vetoed a US-drafted resolution aimed at ending the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara and establishing a new political one. A subsequent Russian proposal to extend the existing mission for a year also failed to pass.
El Pais reported it asThe Crossing of Vetoes Between Russia and the US Leaves the UN Mission in the Sahara in the Air (opens El Pais in a new tab)
A summit between Canada and the European Union in Montreal has concluded. Digital trade was a key topic on the agenda for the meeting hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
El Pais reported it asCanada and the EU Seal “a Partnership for the Future” at a Summit in Montreal (opens El Pais in a new tab)
The Russian Defence Ministry announced that its drones struck a workshop producing unmanned boats in the Chernomorsk port and hit several vessels, a cargo ship bound for Chornomorsk, a dry cargo ship carrying goods for the United States, and a supply ship heading to Odessa. No casualties were reported.
El Pais reported it asUkraine Retakes Attacks on Russian Refineries with a Big Offensive in Samara · Global Voices (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Russia launched a ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv on October 26-27, 2026. The strikes resulted in at least one death and multiple injuries, damaging key infrastructure like the Southern Bridge and subway lines.
El Pais reported it asUkraine Retakes Attacks on Russian Refineries with a Big Offensive in Samara · Global Voices (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Ukraine has requested five European partners provide 10% of their existing interceptor missile stocks for Patriot and IRIS-T air defence systems. Defence Minister Yevhen Khmara proposed an exchange for future deliveries, while also highlighting the urgent need for MANPADS.
El Pais reported it asUkraine Retakes Attacks on Russian Refineries with a Big Offensive in Samara · Global Voices (opens El Pais in a new tab)
President Trump has called for Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola to be removed from the ballot, alleging election fraud after reports surfaced of her campaign's alleged involvement in recruiting a candidate with the same name as her opponent, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.
El Pais reported it asDemocratic maneuvers in Alaska give Trump ammunition to disregard election results (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 30, 2026, for a G20 Foreign Ministers meeting. He plans to use the forum to call for the lifting of international sanctions against Russia. The meeting is a precursor to a larger G20 leaders' summit in Miami.
El Pais reported it asLavrov’s Presence Stirs up the G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Atlanta (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
El Pais reported it asPatrick Stewart, Captain Picard of ‘Star Trek’ and Professor Charles Xavier of ‘X-Men’ Die at 86 (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Scientists have identified an icy object, named 2026 ED138, orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. The object's size is estimated between 600 and 1,500 kilometres in diameter. Classification as a dwarf planet depends on further study.
El Pais reported it asIn Search of the New Pluto: Found a Candidate for Dwarf Planet in the Confines of the Solar System (opens El Pais in a new tab)
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea launched an unidentified projectile off its east coast on Thursday. Japan's Coast Guard suggested it could be a ballistic missile, a detail not widely reported.
El Pais reported it asNorth Korea Launches More than Ten Ballistic Missiles in Full Escalation of Tension with South Korea (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
El Pais reported it asBinance, the Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform, Reports a Computer Attack (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 30, 2026, for a G20 Foreign Ministers meeting. He plans to use the forum to call for the lifting of international sanctions against Russia. The meeting is a precursor to a larger G20 leaders' summit in Miami.
El Pais reported it asLavrov Will Travel to the US for the G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting Despite Sanctions (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Canada and the European Union are engaged in high-level discussions in Montreal, seeking to expand their partnership into new areas like strategic minerals and digital trade. The summit is viewed as a move to create an independent global stance.
El Pais reported it asEU and Canada Seek a Historic Alliance After Discarding the “Associate Member” Formula (opens El Pais in a new tab)
On 28 October 2026 the Federal Reserve kept its benchmark rate steady. Chairman Kevin Warsh told reporters politics played no role in the choice, warned that upcoming inflation numbers may rise, and noted the timing ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
El Pais reported it asThe Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged less than a week before the midterms (opens El Pais in a new tab)
Israel's election results show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc leading as vote counting continues. With 77.7% voter turnout, the highest since 1999, neither bloc has yet reached the 61 seats required for a majority.
El Pais reported it asResults of the Elections in Israel 2026, Live Trump Is Given the Credit that Netanyahu Did Not Suffer a “Strong Defeat” (opens El Pais in a new tab)
A new Lancet report indicates 710,000 heat-related deaths occurred globally in 2023, with over 70% attributed to human-caused climate change. Researchers are urging a formal declaration of a global health emergency to address accelerating climate harms.
El Pais reported it asExperts Call for Climate Change to Be Addressed as a Global Health Emergency: “The Earth Is on Track to Suffer a Heat Blow” (opens El Pais 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Grupo PRISAMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Official site
- elpais.com
- Seen publishing on
- elpais.com, cincodias.elpais.com, english.elpais.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 449
- Reports listed
- 482
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
482 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 174 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and El Pais ran the story anyway.
Across the 449 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than El Pais’s on 3 of them. Overall it filed a median of 27 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 2 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 November 2026. Ratings pulled 4 October 2026.
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