Metro Weekly media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Metro Weekly one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Metro Weekly biased?
The rating organisations do not give Metro Weekly one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Metro Weekly left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Metro Weekly one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Metro Weekly reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Metro Weekly are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Metro Weekly has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Metro Weekly’s own report linked underneath.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have filed a new defamation lawsuit in Tennessee against US podcaster Candace Owens. The suit alleges Owens has continued to spread false claims about Brigitte Macron's gender and profit from them, following an earlier legal action.
Metro Weekly reported it asMacrons File Second Defamation Suit Against Candace Owens (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London has overturned a colonial-era law in Trinidad and Tobago that prohibited gay sex. The ruling ends a legal challenge brought by activist Jason Jones and could influence similar cases in other former British colonies.
Metro Weekly reported it asBritish Court Overturns Trinidad and Tobago’s Gay Sex Ban (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment repealing the state's ban on same-sex marriage. The measure guarantees marriage rights for all couples, irrespective of sex, gender, or race, and replaces the original 2006 ban.
Metro Weekly reported it asVirginia Voters Repeal Ban on Same-Sex Marriage (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, who challenged her dismissal by President Donald Trump. The court's decision upholds a lower court's ruling that validated Trump's executive authority in the firing.
Metro Weekly reported it asSupreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Restrict Trans Inmate Care (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
Senegal's parliament amended a law to double the maximum prison sentence for consensual same-sex acts to 10 years. Human Rights Watch documented arrests, forced HIV testing of detainees, and a rise in fear and stigma, impacting access to healthcare.
Metro Weekly reported it asHundreds Arrested in Senegal’s Anti-Gay Crackdown (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
President Donald Trump used an anti-transgender slur against Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for South Carolina's Senate seat, on Truth Social. Andrews responded by focusing on economic issues. The comments drew condemnation from figures including former Governor David Beasley and Senator Chuck Schumer.
Metro Weekly reported it asTrump Uses Anti-Transgender Slur to Attack Annie Andrews (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
The U.S. Department of Education has rescinded the 2024 Biden-era Title IX regulations, reinstating the 2020 interpretation that defines sex as male or female. The move removes protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, drawing criticism and praise.
Metro Weekly reported it asEducation Department Rescinds Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students (opens Metro Weekly in a new tab)
Police in Tucson, Arizona, are investigating a shooting outside a gay bar as a possible hate crime. Three people, including the shooter, died in the incident. The suspect was found with a note listing LGBTQIA+-associated businesses.
Metro Weekly reported it asGunman Kills 2 Outside Tucson Gay Bar in Anti-LGBTQ Attack (opens Metro Weekly 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Jansi LLCIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Official site
- metroweekly.com
- Seen publishing on
- metroweekly.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
- 16 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Metro Weekly 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 Metro Weekly: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 15 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 November 2026. Ratings pulled 14 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Metro Weekly, 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.
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 Metro Weekly 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.