Mass Live media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Mass Live one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. We have seen it on 25 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Mass Live biased?
The rating organisations do not give Mass Live one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Mass Live left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Mass Live one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Mass Live reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Mass Live are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Mass Live has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Mass Live’s own report linked underneath.
Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour has seen all supporting artists withdraw after the removal of rapper Macklemore. Macklemore was reportedly dropped due to his pro-Palestine stance. Greta Thunberg and Shane MacGowan's widow have commented on the situation.
Mass Live reported it asWhat Ed Sheeran told fans before playing a single song in Philadelphia (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Researchers have identified a new wild cat species, Leopardus tilcayo, in Bolivia's Yungas forest. The small feline, measuring about 45-46 cm and weighing 1.4 kg, is the first new wild cat species described in more than 100 years.
Mass Live reported it asMeet world’s newest wild cat, first in more than century (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Representative Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Massie alleges Hegseth continued U.S. military operations in Iran without congressional approval and criticizes his actions in Venezuela and Yemen.
Mass Live reported it asAnother GOP lawmaker backs impeachment effort targeting White House (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance announced that approximately 870,000 borrowers suspected of pandemic-era fraud will be suspended from future federal small-business loans. These individuals are linked to an estimated $39 billion in alleged fraud, with over 80 people charged in connection with $245 million.
Mass Live reported it asSBA suspends nearly 14,000 borrowers in Massachusetts in fraud crackdown (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
Mass Live reported it asMitch McConnell gets grilled over unexpected move less than 24 hours after return (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Gasoline and diesel prices are expected to increase significantly on Wednesday and Thursday, with analysts pointing to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran as primary drivers. The U.S. average diesel price has reached $6.301 per gallon, and gasoline is at $4.355 per gallon.
Mass Live reported it asNational gas prices hit $4.31 a gallon with multiple states paying over $5 (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Gasoline prices in Michigan increased by 32 cents per gallon over the past week, marking the largest rise of any U.S. state during that period. This significant jump has been noted as one of the largest weekly increases in months.
Mass Live reported it asNational gas prices hit $4.31 a gallon with multiple states paying over $5 (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Former President Donald Trump attended the 25th anniversary 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon. Viewers and a Reuters photograph indicated he appeared sleepy, with his eyes closed. The White House stated he was solemnly remembering victims.
Mass Live reported it asPentagon 9/11 Memorial closed to the public from 3 a.m. Friday for anniversary ceremony (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
A whistleblower has raised alarms about a new U.S. Postal Service system designed to verify mail ballots, alleging it is being developed with inadequate testing and a rushed timeline. The system, intended to comply with a Trump executive order, could lead to the rejection of large numbers of ballots.
Mass Live reported it asWhy a USPS official is warning of a ‘catastrophic failure’ under Trump (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Tennessee's governor has proposed renaming Nashville International Airport for Dolly Parton, days after her death. The proposal faces a policy hurdle regarding naming rights for recently deceased individuals and will be discussed by the airport authority on September 17.
Mass Live reported it asDolly Parton airport coming to popular city, governor announces (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
Mass Live reported it as270 dead in catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
Mass Live reported it as270 dead in catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom, who declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft identifying as a woman, was wearing a shirt with a definition of 'woman'.
Mass Live reported it asWhy was Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from Fever vs. Sky WNBA game? (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford stated that Donald Trump is untrustworthy, using colourful analogies to illustrate his point. Ford also called for unity in the face of a trade war.
Mass Live reported it as‘He can kiss my a--’: What Trump just said to enrage a big foreign critic (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
The average global sea surface temperature reached a record 21.1°C on August 22, 2026, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. This surpasses the previous record set in March 2024 and is attributed to global warming and the El Niño phenomenon.
Mass Live reported it asEarth’s oceans reach a milestone scientists say may be unprecedented in millennia (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Former Illinois Deputy Sean Grayson, convicted of the 2024 shooting death of Sonya Massey, has died in prison. Grayson was serving a 20-year sentence and had been seeking medical release due to stage 4 cancer.
Mass Live reported it asA major development in the Sonya Massey case draws national attention again (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
A new mother asked Dear Abby for guidance on how to support her best friend, who is experiencing anxiety and depression two months after childbirth. The friend is struggling with motherhood, while the asker is adjusting well.
Mass Live reported it asDear Abby: These besties had babies at about the same time, but their experiences are very different (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Portuguese footballer Quévin Castro, 25, has died after collapsing during a friendly match. Medical teams attempted resuscitation and used a defibrillator but were unable to save him. His former club, West Bromwich Albion, announced a tribute.
Mass Live reported it asPro soccer star collapses during match and dies at 25: ‘Far more than a player’ (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
The US State Department has approved a possible $4.5 billion sale of military equipment to Qatar, including four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft. The deal is part of the Foreign Military Sales process and would give Qatar its own refueling capability.
Mass Live reported it asMiddle Eastern country to buy defense aircraft for $4.5 billion (opens Mass Live in a new tab)
Disney’s ABC filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on 18 August 2026, alleging the agency is retaliating against the network for its editorial decisions. The suit targets early licence-renewal orders for eight stations and an investigation into the talk show 'The View'.
Mass Live reported it asHere’s why major network suing FCC and why Donald Trump’s involved (opens Mass Live 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Advance PublicationsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
- Official site
- masslive.com
- Seen publishing on
- masslive.com
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
- 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
- 25
- Reports listed
- 25
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
25 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. Mass Live is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 25 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Mass Live: its report arrived a median of 34 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Mass Live, also publishing from United States, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Mass Live 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.
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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.