Palmer Report media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Palmer Report one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Palmer Report biased?
The rating organisations do not give Palmer Report one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Palmer Report left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Palmer Report one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Palmer Report reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Palmer Report are Ad Fontes Media: Very low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Palmer Report has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Palmer Report’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Palmer Report reported it asThis is what winning looks like (opens Palmer Report in a new tab)
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
Palmer Report reported it asThis is what winning looks like (opens Palmer Report in a new tab)
President Donald Trump's rally in Salina, Kansas, scheduled for Saturday has been cancelled. The Kansas Republican Party confirmed the cancellation five days before the November 3, 2026, Election Day.
Palmer Report reported it asDonald Trump has berserk meltdown after his midterm rally appearance is canceled (opens Palmer Report in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump anticipates further indirect negotiations with Iran this week, despite rejecting a recent proposal. He indicated Iran seeks an agreement, but not one he finds acceptable, and is considering renewed strikes.
Palmer Report reported it asTrump has berserk meltdown as his last ditch effort to save face in Iran war falls apart (opens Palmer Report in a new tab)
Captain Bianca C. Wilkerson, 37, has been identified as the 19th U.S. service member to die while deployed in support of the war with Iran. She died on September 18 from a non-combat-related medical emergency while traveling to the Middle East.
Palmer Report reported it asIs the Trump Pentagon covering up US war deaths? (opens Palmer Report in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft last month after an Iranian assassination threat was detected, according to reports. The White House had stated he was aboard Air Force One, but the press was left on a decoy flight as part of an elaborate ruse to conceal his departure.
Palmer Report reported it asDonald Trump reportedly snuck out of NATO summit in a catering truck – and it’s even more embarrassing than it sounds (opens Palmer Report in a new tab)
Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed described Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage as 'rocky' during a CNN interview, days after Trump shared a photo comparing the couples on Truth Social. The remark drew criticism from right-rated outlets, while left-rated coverage framed it as a response to Trump’s attacks.
Palmer Report reported it asDonald Trump just threw Melania Trump under the bus (opens Palmer Report 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.
Low factuality
Who owns it
- Bill PalmerBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Official site
- palmerreport.com
- Seen publishing on
- palmerreport.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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
7 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 4 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Palmer Report ran the story anyway.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Palmer Report: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 November 2026. Ratings pulled 11 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Palmer Report, 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?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Palmer Report 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.