NBC News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give NBC News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 514 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is NBC News biased?
The rating organisations do not give NBC News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; 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 NBC News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give NBC News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; 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 NBC News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for NBC News 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 NBC News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with NBC News’s own report linked underneath.
Actor Bill Murray interrupted a live CNBC interview with Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, asking him to say the words 'My dog just died' in an attempt to wipe the smile off his face. Hassett complied without smiling.
NBC News reported it asBill Murray gets Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett to say ‘my dog just died’ on CNBC (opens NBC News 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.
NBC News reported it asTrump confirms Reflecting Pool event before Election Day (opens NBC News in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
NBC News reported it asFederal judge dismisses Trump attempt to interfere in Alaska Senate race (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
NBC News reported it asRep. Haley Stevens endorses GOP candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his coalition's parliamentary majority following recent elections. Neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc nor the opposition secured the 61 seats needed for a majority, leading President Isaac Herzog to begin consultations with parties to form a government and avoid further elections.
NBC News reported it asIsrael’s president says parties need to engage with ‘open heart’ to avoid fresh election (opens NBC News 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.
NBC News reported it asPoll: 2024 Trump voters explain why his coalition is fraying ahead of the midterms (opens NBC News in a new tab)
The US Embassy in Moscow issued a warning about a credible threat of a mass casualty event at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve. Russia's FSB confirmed receiving the information and stated that appropriate measures are being taken.
NBC News reported it asU.S. warned Russia of possible Moscow terror attack, FSB says (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Russian strikes on energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without power on Sunday, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Meanwhile, Russian authorities reported significant damage to an industrial facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region following a Ukrainian drone attack.
NBC News reported it asRussian strikes cut power to thousands in Ukraine, despite Trump’s energy ceasefire push (opens NBC News 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.
NBC News reported it asAlaska officials ask judge to deny Trump administration’s ‘impossible’ demand to set aside Senate ballots (opens NBC News in a new tab)
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. The case concerned a story about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein and a sexually suggestive birthday letter. The judge found Trump did not prove actual malice.
NBC News reported it asJudge dismisses Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit over Jeffrey Epstein birthday card story (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
NBC News reported it asHaley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed clash over Israel ad ahead of planned rally together (opens NBC News in a new tab)
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to release information on noncitizen voting by Friday. The order comes as the Trump administration's election integrity initiatives face scrutiny in court, with Democrats and voting rights groups alleging federal interference.
NBC News reported it asJudge orders Trump administration to hand over list of alleged noncitizen voters (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Daniel J. Sullivan, an independent Alaska Senate candidate with a name similar to the Republican incumbent, has left his hometown of Petersburg days before the election. His departure has intensified claims that he was recruited as a 'decoy' to confuse voters.
NBC News reported it asFBI investigating Alaska Democrat’s campaign (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Early voting turnout is up significantly in many states that could determine control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis. This surge is particularly notable in battleground states where Democrats are seeking to flip Republican-held seats.
NBC News reported it asTrump campaigns in Florida ahead of weekend rallies in final midterm blitz (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal judge to halt a third criminal case against him. The Justice Department filed the charges using a 'criminal information' instead of a grand jury, a move Comey's team calls legally invalid.
NBC News reported it asJudge warns DOJ he’d be ‘extremely frustrated’ if it raids Comey’s home (opens NBC News in a new tab)
175 House Democrats have sent a letter to federal officials demanding an end to the investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar's immigration history. They argue the probe is a partisan attack and an attempt to influence her re-election bid.
NBC News reported it asNew details on Rep. Ilhan Omar investigation (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Former Minnesota state representative Joe Radinovich stated on X that the marriage fraud allegation against Ilhan Omar is 'almost certainly true.' Omar's campaign responded by calling Radinovich a 'deeply troubled individual.' The federal probe into Omar's immigration status and finances continues.
NBC News reported it asNew details on Rep. Ilhan Omar investigation (opens NBC News 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.
NBC News reported it asFears of Binance hack prompt Tether, Circle to freeze over $1.5 billion in funds (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
NBC News reported it asPatrick Stewart, actor known for iconic roles of Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, dies at 86 (opens NBC News in a new tab)
Polymarket users reported losing funds after a security breach involving malicious code on the company's website. The platform halted trading, identified a compromised third-party provider, and has promised to refund all affected users.
NBC News reported it asPolymarket trading halted after vendor compromise; impacted users will be ‘made whole’ (opens NBC News 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
- NBCMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- ComcastMedia Conglomerateparent group
- NBCUniversal Television and StreamingMedia Conglomerateparent group
- NBCUniversalMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- nbcnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- nbcnews.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
- 514
- Reports listed
- 547
- We could read
- 24
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
523 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 24 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 169 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and NBC News ran the story anyway.
Across the 514 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than NBC News’s on 7 of them. Overall it filed a median of 23 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.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as NBC News, 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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