Instinct media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Instinct on the left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Instinct biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Instinct on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Instinct left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Instinct on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Instinct reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Instinct are Ad Fontes Media: Very low factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Instinct has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Instinct’s own report linked underneath.
Police in Tucson, Arizona, are investigating a shooting outside a gay bar as a possible hate crime. Three people, including the shooter, died in the incident. The suspect was found with a note listing LGBTQIA+-associated businesses.
Instinct reported it as2 Men Killed Outside Tucson Gay Bar in Possible Hate Crime (opens Instinct in a new tab)
Hunter Biden described himself as '48.6% gay' during a comedy podcast interview with Luke Beasley on 16 August 2026. The remark, which fluctuated between 47% and 48.5% during the exchange, was part of a broader discussion on personal and political topics. No left- or centre-rated outlet covered the story.
Instinct reported it asHunter Biden Reclaims a Narrative That Used to Humiliate Him – Instinct Magazine (opens Instinct in a new tab)
The Kennedy Center told a federal court it will not restore Donald Trump’s name to its facade before 8 September, following a judge’s order to remove it in May. The board also voted to close the venue for two years of renovations and rename its plaza after Trump, prompting further legal challenges.
Instinct reported it asTrump’s Kennedy Center Name Move Is Challenging a Court Order (opens Instinct in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MedialeftCheck it
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 low factuality
- Ad Fontes MediaveryLowCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Instinct.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- instinctmagazine.com
- Seen publishing on
- instinctmagazine.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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 16 August 2026
3 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Instinct ran the story anyway.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Instinct’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 32 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 1 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 September 2026. Ratings pulled 15 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Instinct, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Instinct publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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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.