Los Angeles Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Los Angeles Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. We have seen it on 417 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Los Angeles Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Los Angeles Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Los Angeles Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Los Angeles Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Los Angeles Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Los Angeles Times 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 Los Angeles Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Los Angeles Times’s own report linked underneath.
Wilson Joseph, leader of Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, has written to the UN Secretary General requesting dialogue and mediation. He expressed concerns that El Salvador's deployment of troops after the disappearance of four Salvadoran aviation technicians could escalate violence.
Los Angeles Times reported it asHaitian Gang Leader Writes to the UN Asking for Dialogue (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
President Donald Trump indicated he would deliver his final campaign pitch for the midterm elections at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The renovation of the pool has been marked by significant cost increases and schedule delays.
Los Angeles Times reported it asTrump Promotes His Renovations to the Reflective Pond One Day Before the Election Day in the U.S. (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Heavy rainfall has caused flash flooding across the Southwest, prompting mandatory evacuations in parts of Arizona and Colorado. The San Juan River in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, is forecast to reach historic levels, while Sedona, Arizona, residents are being urged to leave their homes.
Los Angeles Times reported it asFlash flooding triggers evacuations in Southwest and dire warning for Colorado spa town (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
The UAE hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough in US-Iran negotiations but is prepared for the worst, according to Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president. He spoke at a conference in Manama on November 1, 2026.
Los Angeles Times reported it asUnited Arab Emirates says military solutions offer no quick offramps to crisis with Iran (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
China's Coast Guard is harassing shipping with patrols off Taiwan's east coast, according to Taiwan's Coast Guard. Taipei says the patrols aim to exert a fictional jurisdiction and has sent its own ships to monitor the situation.
Los Angeles Times reported it asTaiwan Accuses China of Bullying After Coast Guard Confrontation · Global Voices (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Brooke Rollins posted a Halloween‑themed image on X depicting a Black man as a “SNAP Fraudster” shortly before the 2026 midterm elections. Critics called the post racist, while federal prosecutors charged Mercedes Reshard New, known as “Shawty Dred,” with fraud totalling more than $4 million.
Los Angeles Times reported it asTrump administration's social media posts ahead of elections criticized as racially inflammatory (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
The Trump administration's online accounts shared images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween background around a Black man accused of food assistance fraud. The posts have drawn criticism for being inflammatory, coinciding with a government campaign on immigration enforcement.
Los Angeles Times reported it asTrump administration's social media posts ahead of elections criticized as racially inflammatory (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
US news outlets will announce midterm election winners before all votes are tallied, using data from the Associated Press or Decision Desk HQ. These providers use vote counts, statistical analysis, and modeling to project outcomes, though past race calls have been retracted.
Los Angeles Times reported it asRepublicans are about to find out whether their gerrymanders backfired (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Alaska's Republican-run state government has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Trump's direction that seeks to halt the certification of the state's Senate race. The state argues the Justice Department's demand to separate ballots is impossible and violates voter privacy.
Los Angeles Times reported it asAttorneys for GOP-run Alaska say 'meritless' Trump demand to set aside Senate ballots 'not even possible' (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Iran's army has warned that any new US attack would spread the conflict to a wider geographical area. The warning comes amid diplomatic efforts to avert further hostilities and as both the US and Israel hold crucial elections.
Los Angeles Times reported it asIranian Leader Threatens to Respond Immediately to Any Attack and Other Middle East News (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Iran's strikes on US bases in the Middle East focused on early-warning systems before hitting aircraft and buildings. An analysis documented over 115 strikes damaging structures on 26 sites, prompting the US to move assets out of the Persian Gulf.
Los Angeles Times reported it asExclusive Attacks by Iran Damaged 26 U.S. Bases and Caused Millions of Losses (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Protests erupted outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw following the suspension of its president and deputy. Police detained three individuals after some demonstrators threw objects at officers. Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated his government's duty is to restore the rule of law.
Los Angeles Times reported it asProtests erupt around a top court in Poland after its president is suspended (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
China's Communist Party began its Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing on October 26. President Xi Jinping opened the meeting, which is scheduled to last four days and focuses on enhancing party discipline and self-governance.
Los Angeles Times reported it asChina’s Communist Party Hardens Internal Discipline. Why It’s Important (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has thanked the Trump administration for capturing President Nicolas Maduro, calling it a 'floodgate to freedom'. Returning to Venezuela after 10 months in exile, she urged for presidential elections in 2027 and criticised a recent US oil deal.
Los Angeles Times reported it asMachado Focuses on Democratic Transition in Venezuela and Denies Contact with President in Charge (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
Los Angeles Times reported it asIndagan Hacking $6.3 Billion Into Binance; It's Perhaps the Biggest Cryptocurrency Theft. (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Imperial Oil announced a third-quarter profit of $2.45 billion, a significant increase from $539 million in the same period last year. The company's results were bolstered by rising oil prices and improved refining margins, while upstream production saw a slight decrease.
Los Angeles Times reported it asBig Oil reaps $56 billion as conflicts send fuel prices soaring (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
The United States cancelled a planned group photo at the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Atlanta due to deep rifts among member nations. Several European diplomats objected to standing alongside Russia's top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, leading to the cancellation.
Los Angeles Times reported it asDeep rifts among G20 diplomats, including from China and Russia, prompt U.S. to ditch group photo (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked former President Barack Obama after Obama compared White House renovations to a Cheesecake Factory. Bessent made his remarks while at a Cheesecake Factory, and Trump also responded to Obama's comments.
Los Angeles Times reported it asCommentary: Obama rage-baited Trump with the Cheesecake Factory. It was clever politics (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Former President Barack Obama ridiculed President Donald Trump’s White House renovation as resembling a Saddam Hussein‑opened Cheesecake Factory during Ohio and Michigan campaign events nine days before the 2026 U.S. midterms. Digests reported two cost estimates, $900 million and over a billion dollars, and varied in what they highlighted.
Los Angeles Times reported it asCommentary: Obama rage-baited Trump with the Cheesecake Factory. It was clever politics (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Mohamed Soliman pleaded guilty to nine federal hate-crime counts and three federal weapon charges for a June 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. He is already serving a life sentence for state convictions related to the same attack, which killed one demonstrator and injured about a dozen others.
Los Angeles Times reported it asMan Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crimes for Deadly Assault in Colorado (opens Los Angeles Times in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- Patrick Soon-ShiongBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- El Segundo, Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Official site
- latimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- latimes.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 417
- Reports listed
- 426
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
426 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 106 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Los Angeles Times ran the story anyway.
Across the 417 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Los Angeles Times’s on 5 of them. Overall it filed a median of 30 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 3 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 3 November 2026.
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