El Paso Matters media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give El Paso Matters one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is El Paso Matters biased?
The rating organisations do not give El Paso Matters one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is El Paso Matters left or right?
The rating organisations do not give El Paso Matters one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is El Paso Matters reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for El Paso Matters 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 Paso Matters has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with El Paso Matters’s own report linked underneath.
El Paso Matters has filed a lawsuit seeking to make public investigative records from the 2019 Walmart mass shooting. The lawsuit asserts the Texas Attorney General's Office wrongly applied the Texas Family Code to keep records secret, arguing the investigation was not a child abuse case.
El Paso Matters reported it asEl Paso Matters challenges secrecy over Walmart shooting investigation records (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
The Trump administration is on track to deport approximately 660,000 people in its past year, a 26% increase compared to the Biden administration's yearly average. Voluntary departures are at an all-time high, but most deported individuals have no criminal convictions.
El Paso Matters reported it asDeportations climb under Trump but fall short of White House target, a new report finds (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
Early voting turnout is up significantly in many states that could determine control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis. This surge is particularly notable in battleground states where Democrats are seeking to flip Republican-held seats.
El Paso Matters reported it asEarly voting for Nov. 3 election starts Monday with record El Paso voter roll (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
El Paso Matters reported it asEarly voting for Nov. 3 election starts Monday with record El Paso voter roll (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
A judge in Mexico ordered the criminal case against former immigration chief Francisco Garduño to be closed, ending charges linked to the 2023 fire at a Ciudad Juárez detention centre that killed 40 migrants and injured 30. Victims’ groups plan to appeal the decision.
El Paso Matters reported it asMexican judge closes the case against immigration chief Francisco Garduño over 2023 Juarez fire (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
The Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the Trump administration's policy of mandatory immigration detention without bond hearings. The policy affects immigrants in the U.S. illegally, including those who have lived there for years. Federal appeals courts are divided on the issue.
El Paso Matters reported it asSupreme Court grants review of Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for immigrants (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own. The court will hear arguments on the policy in December, with three liberal justices dissenting from the decision.
El Paso Matters reported it asSupreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs Trump policy (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke business and tourism visas for up to 200,000 foreigners seeking asylum in the US. The State Department expects to announce the action, which would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history, in the coming weeks.
El Paso Matters reported it asU.S. set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
An Associated Press investigation found more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops have been detained since President Trump began his second term, with at least six deported. The Department of Homeland Security does not track these cases, and the Pentagon declined to comment.
El Paso Matters reported it asTrump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents (opens El Paso Matters in a new tab)
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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- El Paso Matters Inc.Independentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, United States
- Official site
- elpasomatters.org
- Seen publishing on
- elpasomatters.org
- 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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
9 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.
We have not seen El Paso Matters cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than El Paso Matters’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 28 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 8 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as El Paso Matters, 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 El Paso Matters 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.