Is emptywheel biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place emptywheel as leaning left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is emptywheel biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place emptywheel as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is emptywheel left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place emptywheel as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is emptywheel reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for emptywheel are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What emptywheel has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with emptywheel’s own report linked underneath.
Donald Trump accused oil executives of profiteering from his Iran policy and US Attorney Jeanine Pirou of altering court filings in a Monday speech. His approval rating fell to one-third in a CNN/SSRS poll, while Republican senators insisted on written proof that a $1.8bn Justice Department fund was permanently abolished.
emptywheel reported it asThe Davey Hearn Motion to Dismiss ALSO Debunks Trump's Vandalism Claim (opens emptywheel in a new tab)
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Tuesday on advancing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination after Republican senators secured written assurances that a $1.8 billion fund tied to the Trump-IRS settlement would not proceed. Democrats argue the guarantees fall short of permanent protections.
emptywheel reported it asSenate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief's Tax Crimes (opens emptywheel 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.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for emptywheel.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- emptywheel.net
- Seen publishing on
- emptywheel.net
- 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
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
2 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 emptywheel 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, another outlet was always ahead of emptywheel: its report arrived a median of 18 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as emptywheel, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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.