Is Manila Bulletin biased?
The rating organisations do not give Manila Bulletin one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Manila Bulletin biased?
The rating organisations do not give Manila Bulletin one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Manila Bulletin left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Manila Bulletin one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Manila Bulletin reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Manila Bulletin are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Manila Bulletin has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Manila Bulletin’s own report linked underneath.
South Korean police raided Starbucks Korea’s headquarters on 5 August 2026 after a civic group accused the company of defaming victims of the 1980 Gwangju pro-democracy uprising. The investigation centres on a May promotion offering discounts on ‘Tank’ tumblers, which critics linked to the military’s violent suppression of the uprising.
Manila Bulletin reported it asPolice raid Starbucks' South Korean HQ over ad campaign that evoked massacre (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region killed over a dozen people and wounded others on 5 August 2026. The attacks destroyed Rozetka’s largest warehouse in Brovary, near Kyiv, and damaged homes in the Brovary district. No centre- or right-rated outlets covered the strikes.
Manila Bulletin reported it asRussian missile and drone barrage in Ukrainian capital region kills 17 (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
Taiwan began its annual Han Kuang military exercise on 5 August 2026, running combat drills for troops and reservists to practise repelling an attack. Civilians will face air raid drills and temporary mobile internet slowdowns. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has repeatedly threatened to use force to seize the island.
Manila Bulletin reported it asTaiwan kicks off annual military drills to counter a potential Chinese attack (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
Donald Trump warned Iran that the US would launch major strikes unless the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, while Axios reported an interim deal was near. Oil prices fell below $80 a barrel after US officials expressed hope for a resolution, though no centre-rated outlet covered the story.
Manila Bulletin reported it asTrump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed progress in negotiations with Iran and Oman to increase commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, though no final agreement has been reached. Qatar and Pakistan are mediating, with a Saudi source suggesting a deal could be announced within days.
Manila Bulletin reported it asTrump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit 32 km southwest of Sarangani Island in the southern Philippines on 5 August 2026, with no tsunami warning issued. Local officials reported panic but no confirmed casualties or damage. The region had suffered a deadly 7.8-magnitude quake in June.
Manila Bulletin reported it asNo tsunami threat to Philippines after 6.4-magnitude Sarangani quake, says Phivolcs (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
UEFA has threatened FIFA with legal action over Gianni Infantino's abandoned plan to sell a $4.2bn stake in World Cup profits to private investors. The proposal, withdrawn after global criticism, prompted UEFA to explore an alternative FIFA president candidate ahead of the March 2027 election.
Manila Bulletin reported it asUEFA warns FIFA of legal action over Infantino's failed World Cup sell-off plan (opens Manila Bulletin in a new tab)
The Russian embassy in Italy attributed a bombing at a Moscow restaurant that killed five people to Ukraine, calling the perpetrators 'Kyiv terrorists' and claiming the attack aimed to frighten Italians working in Russia. Outlets diverged on whether to include the embassy's stated motive.
Manila Bulletin reported it asRussian Embassy in Rome blames Ukraine for deadly Italian restaurant bombing in Moscow (opens Manila Bulletin 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Manila Bulletin Publishing CorporationCorporationdirect 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
- 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 5 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Manila Bulletin 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 Manila Bulletin: its report arrived a median of 30 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 7 August 2026.
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.