public.news media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places public.news on the right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is public.news biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places public.news on the right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is public.news left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places public.news on the right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is public.news reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for public.news are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What public.news has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with public.news’s own report linked underneath.
Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk' features an original song by David Byrne titled 'Let Me Sell You a Dream.' The lyrics are exclusively composed of Elon Musk's own quotes. The 235-minute film is set for a U.S. theatrical release on October 16.
public.news reported it asNew HBO Documentary Promotes Conspiracy Theory That Elon Musk Used “Space Lasers” To Rig Election For Trump (opens public.news in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckrightCheck it
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for public.news.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- public.news
- Seen publishing on
- public.news
- 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
- 5 September 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.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and public.news ran the story anyway.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of public.news: its report arrived a median of 5 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as public.news, 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 public.news 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.