Griffin Daily News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Griffin Daily News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 22 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Griffin Daily News biased?
The rating organisations do not give Griffin Daily News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Griffin Daily News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Griffin Daily News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Griffin Daily News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Griffin Daily 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 Griffin Daily News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Griffin Daily News’s own report linked underneath.
Bearded capuchin monkeys hunt small animals like lizards and rodents when plant foods are scarce, according to a study published in PLOS One. Male monkeys hunt more frequently and target more dangerous prey than females, and both sexes prefer the fat-rich brains and guts of their prey.
Griffin Daily News reported it asMonkeys hunt animals like lizards and snakes when fruit scarce (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged in a Minneapolis shooting has been released from a Texas jail. A judge refused to order his extradition to Minnesota, citing jurisdictional issues, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott awaits an internal state investigation.
Griffin Daily News reported it asICE agent accused in Minnesota released from Texas jail (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Matt Calkins resigned from the Seattle Times on 20 August 2026 after the paper declined to publish his column on transgender athletes in women’s sports. Calkins said the decision followed interviews with student-athletes opposing transgender participation in female sports, and that the paper had rejected other proposed columns. The Seattle Times has not commented.
Griffin Daily News reported it asSeattle Times loses columnist over spiked women’s sports article (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on 20 August 2026 to increase commercial space launches to at least 1,000 annually by 2030, up from 178 in 2025. The directive tasks NASA with promoting lunar transport and robotic Mars access, and federal agencies with finding new launch and re-entry sites.
Griffin Daily News reported it asTrump signs memorandum to expand space travel (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
A poll conducted by The Center Square in North Carolina at the end of July found 34% of respondents identified as MAGA, while 29% identified as Democratic Socialists of America. The survey results were reported by outlets across the political spectrum, with varying emphasis on the groups named.
Griffin Daily News reported it asElection 2026: Poll says MAGA 34%, Democratic Socialists of America 29% (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott paused construction in Big Bend National Park on Monday after bipartisan criticism. The move follows concerns from Texas officials and local residents about environmental damage and the project's necessity.
Griffin Daily News reported it asAbbott claims DHS isn’t building a wall or fence in Big Bend National Park (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
A new Georgia law mandates restaurants disclose whether shrimp is imported, effective July 2026 but enforceable from January 2027. The measure follows concerns over mislabeling, safety risks in imports, and economic pressure on local shrimpers. DNA tests revealed widespread misrepresentation in coastal eateries.
Griffin Daily News reported it asUnder new legislation, restaurants prep to post origin country for shrimp (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
A federal judge in Texas ruled that a Biden administration regulation targeting 'ghost guns' violates the Second and Fifth Amendments. The decision blocks enforcement of the ATF's 'frame and receiver' rule, which had expanded firearm definitions to include unfinished parts. The case was brought by Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation.
Griffin Daily News reported it asJudge sides with Defense Distributed over gun 'frame or receiver' rules (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern about a questionnaire from the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America for city council candidates. Eight outlets carried the story, all citing The Center Square as the source, with no additional details on the questionnaire's content or the ADL's specific objections.
Griffin Daily News reported it asJewish leaders sound alarm over DSA questionnaire (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on 18 August 2026 imposing new restrictions on data center development, including local approval requirements and removal from fast-track permitting. The move reverses his earlier support for such projects and follows bipartisan opposition to their environmental and energy impacts.
Griffin Daily News reported it asShapiro signs data center order barring fast-track permitting, NDAs (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court on 17 August 2026 to reinstate human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, after a judge dismissed them in May. The judge ruled the prosecution was selective and vindictive, citing statements by then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Abrego Garcia’s defence calls the case politically motivated.
Griffin Daily News reported it asJustice Department appeals charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Florida voters choose nominees on 20 August 2026 to replace term-limited Governor Ron DeSantis and to complete Marco Rubio’s unexpired U.S. Senate term. The state’s first congressional primaries under a new Republican-drawn map will also take place.
Griffin Daily News reported it asVoters to decide who will fill Swalwell's seat in Congress (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Iran exploited the June 17 US-Iran memorandum of understanding to accelerate missile and drone production, appoint hardline commanders, and deploy forces near the Red Sea, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Iranian state media. The truce expired on 17 August 2026 with no renewal announced.
Griffin Daily News reported it asNo price tag on Trump's plan to claim the Strait of Hormuz (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced a shift from a defensive to an offensive military doctrine, with a senior commander stating the country may adopt 'transformative approaches' to neutralise threats. The move follows a 60-day ceasefire memorandum with the US, which Iran reportedly used to prepare for wider conflict.
Griffin Daily News reported it asNo price tag on Trump's plan to claim the Strait of Hormuz (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
A coalition of Second Amendment organisations has sued New York over its prohibition of Glock-style handguns, arguing the measure breaches constitutional protections. The case joins a series of legal challenges to state gun-control statutes across the US.
Griffin Daily News reported it asSecond amendment groups sue New York over 'Glock' handgun ban (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
A Government Accountability Office audit found the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, claimed $110bn in savings that were either inaccurate or unsupported. The report also revealed 128 of 206 DOGE employees had left by January 2026, and agencies withheld ethics records.
Griffin Daily News reported it asGAO says DOGE couldn't substantiate much of its claimed savings (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
New Mexico filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing them of withholding unredacted files critical to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The state says repeated requests for information were ignored or denied, hindering its probe into alleged sex crimes.
Griffin Daily News reported it asNew Mexico AG sues DOJ over state’s ongoing Epstein investigation (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance said a White House task force identified $230 billion in fraud and stopped $56 billion in fraudulent payments. He called for Congress to enact tougher penalties and codify anti-fraud measures to prevent a future Democratic administration reversing the work.
Griffin Daily News reported it asWhite House launches fraud dashboard, touts success (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
A hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration records from Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2020, including sensitive data on 930 individuals. The FBI confirmed the breach and urged prosecution, but four prosecutors refused to press charges, closing the case by 2023.
Griffin Daily News reported it asDeclassified docs reveal over 600k voter files hacked; prosecutors declined prosecution (opens Griffin Daily News in a new tab)
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing on COVID-19 origins. The resolution, opposed by all Democrats, was sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
Griffin Daily News reported it asSenators hold Fauci in contempt, advance to U.S. Attorney (opens Griffin Daily News 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
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Griffin Daily News.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- griffindailynews.com
- Seen publishing on
- griffindailynews.com
- 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
- 22
- Reports listed
- 22
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
22 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.
On 7 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Griffin Daily News ran the story anyway.
Across the 22 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Griffin Daily News’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 25 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 September 2026. Ratings pulled 9 September 2026.
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