Is First Amendment Watch biased?
First Amendment Watch is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is First Amendment Watch biased?
First Amendment Watch is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is First Amendment Watch left or right?
First Amendment Watch is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is First Amendment Watch reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for First Amendment Watch. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What First Amendment Watch has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with First Amendment Watch’s own report linked underneath.
Four advocacy groups, including Human Rights Watch, filed a lawsuit in New York on 11 August 2026 challenging the Trump administration’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court. The plaintiffs argue the measures violate US constitutional rights and hinder prosecutions of war crimes. The administration calls the ICC a threat to US sovereignty.
First Amendment Watch reported it asGroups Sue the Trump Administration Over Its Targeting of the International Criminal Court (opens First Amendment Watch in a new tab)
A federal appeals court indicated it may block a defamation lawsuit by New England fishing businesses against Monterey Bay Aquarium over its Seafood Watch programme's 2022 decision to list lobster as unsustainable. Judges cited free speech concerns during oral arguments on 26 July 2026.
First Amendment Watch reported it asAppeals Court Says Fishermen’s Claim in Lobster Defamation Suit Raises First Amendment Questions (opens First Amendment Watch in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed First Amendment Watch. We asked on 10 August 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for First Amendment Watch.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- firstamendmentwatch.org
- Seen publishing on
- firstamendmentwatch.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
- 7 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. First Amendment Watch has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count 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 First Amendment Watch: its report arrived a median of 21 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 13 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 13 August 2026. Ratings pulled 10 August 2026.
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