Is Firstpost News biased?
The rating organisations do not give Firstpost News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Firstpost News biased?
The rating organisations do not give Firstpost News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Firstpost News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Firstpost News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Firstpost News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Firstpost News 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 Firstpost News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Firstpost News’s own report linked underneath.
Scientists at the Arc Institute in California used an AI model named Evo to design 16 new bacteriophages capable of infecting E. coli. The study, published in Science, excluded human pathogen datasets, ensuring the viruses cannot infect people. Experts warn of biosecurity risks despite potential medical applications.
Firstpost News reported it asAI's next breakthrough isn't another chatbot — it's a virus (opens Firstpost News in a new tab)
Republican Congressman Riley Moore has described India's proposed amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act as a 'clear attack against Christians', alleging they could enable government control of churches and religious charities. The bill, which introduces a Designated Authority to manage foreign-funded assets, has drawn warnings of bilateral strain from Moore.
Firstpost News reported it as'Clear attack against Christians': US Congressman warns FCRA Bill could hurt India-US ties (opens Firstpost News 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
- Network18 Groupunknowndirect owner
- Reliance Industriesunknownparent group
- Mukesh AmbaniBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Mumbai, Konkan Division, Maharashtra, India
- Official site
- firstpost.com
- Seen publishing on
- firstpost.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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 Firstpost News cover a story that outlets rated right 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 Firstpost News: its report arrived a median of 10 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 7 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Firstpost News, also publishing from India, 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.