Is kctv5 biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place kctv5 in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is kctv5 biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place kctv5 in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is kctv5 left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place kctv5 in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is kctv5 reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for kctv5 are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What kctv5 has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with kctv5’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.
kctv5 reported it asScientists have created new viruses using AI. Here’s how they did it (opens kctv5 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.
kctv5 reported it asA state is suing the DOJ, seeking unredacted Epstein files for its own prosecutions (opens kctv5 in a new tab)
Kansas Democrats pick state senator Cindy Holscher to challenge Republican Ty Masterson for governor
Trust 60Kansas state senator Cindy Holscher won the Democratic primary for governor on 4 August 2026, securing the party’s nomination to face Republican Ty Masterson in November. The race is seen as competitive in a state that has elected governors from the opposite party of the White House for 60 years.
kctv5 reported it asCindy Holscher wins Democratic primary, advances to Kansas governor’s race (opens kctv5 in a new tab)
Missouri’s top election official has rejected a citizens’ petition to hold a statewide referendum on new congressional districts endorsed by Donald Trump. Supporters had gathered over 300,000 signatures, but Hoskins ruled the effort unconstitutional. The decision is being challenged in court.
kctv5 reported it asMissouri redistricting: Bid to put redrawn Congressional map to public vote rejected (opens kctv5 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Gray TelevisionMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Meredith CorporationMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
3 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. kctv5 is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of kctv5: its report arrived a median of 2 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.
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