pacificislandtimes.com media bias and reliability
pacificislandtimes.com is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is pacificislandtimes.com biased?
pacificislandtimes.com is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is pacificislandtimes.com left or right?
pacificislandtimes.com is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is pacificislandtimes.com reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for pacificislandtimes.com. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What pacificislandtimes.com has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with pacificislandtimes.com’s own report linked underneath.
The United States is preparing its first offshore deep‑sea mining lease sale off American Samoa. The Marine Minerals Administration will offer two seabed tracts of roughly 31 million acres, with bidding on 19 November 2026, while local groups and environmentalists protest the plan.
pacificislandtimes.com reported it asUS takes final step to award first seabed mineral lease sale in American Samoa (opens pacificislandtimes.com in a new tab)
Earthjustice filed a federal lawsuit on 18 August 2026 to halt the US government’s auction of 33 million acres of seabed off American Samoa for deep-sea mining. The suit argues the plan threatens endangered species and violates environmental laws, while the Trump administration seeks to expedite permits despite international calls for a moratorium.
pacificislandtimes.com reported it asEarthjustice sues Trump over deep-sea mining plans in American Samoa (opens pacificislandtimes.com in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed pacificislandtimes.com. We asked on 19 October 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for pacificislandtimes.com.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- pacificislandtimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- pacificislandtimes.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 20 August 2026
2 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. pacificislandtimes.com has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of pacificislandtimes.com: its report arrived a median of 17 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 October 2026. Ratings pulled 19 October 2026.
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