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. We have seen it on 2 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 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.
A U.S. federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release $65 million in withheld payments for legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children. The funds were released by the deadline, but the expiration of a key contract leaves 24,000 pending cases without representation.
El Paso Matters reported it asJudge orders Trump administration to pay $765,000 owed to Estrella del Paso (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.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 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 2 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 9 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 August 2026. Ratings pulled 9 August 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.