ELLE media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give ELLE one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is ELLE biased?
The rating organisations do not give ELLE one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is ELLE left or right?
The rating organisations do not give ELLE one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is ELLE reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for ELLE are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What ELLE has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with ELLE’s own report linked underneath.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
ELLE reported it asWhy Are Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Returning To The UK? (opens ELLE in a new tab)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
ELLE reported it asWhat Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s U.K. Move With Archie and Lilibet Means for Their Royal Status (opens ELLE in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
ELLE reported it asViola Davis, Ashlee Simpson, and More Pay Tribute to Hayden Panettiere (opens ELLE in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
ELLE reported it asHayden Panettiere Has Tragically Died (opens ELLE in a new tab)
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attended the David Foster Foundation’s 40th anniversary gala in Victoria, Canada. The Duchess wore a navy asymmetrical gown and Princess Diana’s diamond and sapphire earrings. The event supports families of children needing organ transplants, with performances by music stars including Josh Groban and CeeLo Green.
ELLE reported it asMeghan Markle Wears Chic Asymmetrical Gown With Meaningful Earrings (opens ELLE 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
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for ELLE.
Where it publishes from
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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
4 of those reports were 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 ELLE cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of ELLE: its report arrived a median of 17 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 25 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as ELLE, 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 ELLE 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.