La Silla Vacía media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places La Silla Vacía as leaning left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is La Silla Vacía biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places La Silla Vacía as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is La Silla Vacía left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places La Silla Vacía as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is La Silla Vacía reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for La Silla Vacía are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What La Silla Vacía has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with La Silla Vacía’s own report linked underneath.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump for the first time next week in New York. The meeting, expected to take place at the United Nations General Assembly, will focus on international issues including Ukraine, the Middle East, and energy.
La Silla Vacía reported it asTrump and Delcy Rodriguez Will Meet Next Week in New York (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
President Donald Trump has accused Canada of not doing enough to stop drug trafficking, alleging that fentanyl is produced in clandestine Canadian labs. However, he did not include Canada on a list of major drug-producing countries submitted to Congress.
La Silla Vacía reported it asUnited States Maintains Decertification with Conditions to Colombia (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
A report documented 124 killings of land and environmental defenders worldwide in 2025. Latin America was the region with the highest number of deaths, making up 85% of the global total. Colombia and Brazil reported the most killings.
La Silla Vacía reported it asFor the Fourth Year, Colombia Is the Most Lethal Country for Environmental Leadership (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
Alex Saab, an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is expected to plead guilty in a US federal money laundering case. He is accused of bribing officials to win contracts for food imports during a period of hardship in Venezuela.
La Silla Vacía reported it asAfter Pre-Agreement, Alex Saab Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in the U.S. (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
Donald Trump confirmed he uses artificial intelligence but declined to specify how, stating only that it can be used for "a lot of things." He also commented on the technology's future, saying "whoever wins in artificial intelligence wins."
La Silla Vacía reported it asTrump Dismisses AI Control and Says There Is a “Conspiracy” (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations on artificial intelligence, stating that the U.S. government already possesses adequate power to control AI firms. He described efforts to implement guardrails as a "sick conspiracy" that could cede technological leadership to China.
La Silla Vacía reported it asTrump Dismisses AI Control and Says There Is a “Conspiracy” (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru between September 8 and 10. He will meet with the presidents of each country to discuss cooperation on fighting narcoterrorism, strengthening trade, and supporting Colombia's earthquake recovery.
La Silla Vacía reported it asMarco Rubio Will Meet Abelardo Next Week in Barranquilla (opens La Silla Vacía in a new tab)
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered immigration raids and vowed to deport migrants without legal status, prioritizing those who commit crimes. This marks a significant departure from Colombia's prior policy of offering pathways to residency for Venezuelans.
La Silla Vacía reported it asWhy Deporting Can't Be a Government Goal (opens La Silla Vacía 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.
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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
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for La Silla Vacía.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- lasillavacia.com
- Seen publishing on
- lasillavacia.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
8 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 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and La Silla Vacía ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of La Silla Vacía: its report arrived a median of 31 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as La Silla Vacía, 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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