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Kosmo Online media bias and reliability

Kosmo Online is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 38 published stories of ours.

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The short answers

Is Kosmo Online biased?

Kosmo Online 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 Kosmo Online left or right?

Kosmo Online is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.

Is Kosmo Online reliable?

We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Kosmo Online. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.

What Kosmo Online has been covering

Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Kosmo Online’s own report linked underneath.

Who says so

No rating organisation we draw on has placed Kosmo Online. We asked on 28 September 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 Kosmo Online.

Where it publishes from

Publishes from
Malaysia
Official site
kosmo.com.my
Seen publishing on
kosmo.com.my
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
38
Reports listed
40
We could read
0
First seen
29 August 2026

40 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. Kosmo Online has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.

Across the 38 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Kosmo Online: its report arrived a median of 27 hours after the earliest one we logged.

Measured 15 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 October 2026. Ratings pulled 28 September 2026.

Think this page is wrong?

The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.

What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Kosmo Online 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.

Report something wrong on this page

Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.

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.

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