Is Fact Check biased?
The rating organisations do not give Fact Check one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Fact Check biased?
The rating organisations do not give Fact Check one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Fact Check left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Fact Check one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Fact Check reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Fact Check are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Very high factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Fact Check has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Fact Check’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.
Fact Check reported it asTrump's Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney Memo (opens Fact Check in a new tab)
A study by World Weather Attribution found human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of extreme fire conditions in Canada in 2026, burning 3.8 million hectares. U.S. President Donald Trump attributed the fires to Canadian mismanagement, while scientists pointed to global emissions.
Fact Check reported it asMajor Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement (opens Fact Check 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
We hold no ownership record for Fact Check.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Official site
- factcheck.org
- Seen publishing on
- factcheck.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
- 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Fact Check is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Fact Check: its report arrived a median of 1127 days 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 Fact Check, 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.
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.