Is Power Line biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Power Line on the right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
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.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Power Line.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- powerlineblog.com
- Seen publishing on
- powerlineblog.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Power Line cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Power Line: its report arrived a median of 18 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Power LineRightMixed factualitySuicidal Empathy: A Case Study (opens Power Line in a new tab)
Our report: Suspect in Athens suitcase killing of Elisabeth Ross to appear in court
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Power Line, 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.
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.