Puck media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Puck one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Puck biased?
The rating organisations do not give Puck one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are 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 Puck left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Puck one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are 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 Puck reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Puck are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Puck has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Puck’s own report linked underneath.
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.
Puck reported it asMichigan’s November Surprise & Trump’s Peltola Threat (opens Puck in a new tab)
Starlink and Starshield satellite terminals in Ukraine are now functioning at speeds over 161 km/h, according to a Ministry of Defense source. This development indicates a potential reversal of previous limitations that hampered counter-drone operations and logistics.
Puck reported it asWho Really Pays for Starshield? (opens Puck in a new tab)
Senator Bernie Moreno has requested the Federal Communications Commission investigate ABC News. The call comes after the network removed and revised a report concerning investments linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump and the defense contractor Anduril Industries.
Puck reported it asABC’s Don Jr. Math Problem (opens Puck in a new tab)
Senior US and Russian officials, including Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev, have discussed bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream pipelines. These discussions are linked to potential energy flows to Europe after the war in Ukraine, with Reuters reporting the information citing five sources.
Puck reported it asKushner and Witkoff’s Pipe Dreams (opens Puck in a new tab)
The Senate Leadership Fund, a major Republican super PAC, is halting its advertising in North Carolina's Senate race and redirecting funds to Kansas. The move signals a strategic shift as Republicans focus on retaining their Senate majority.
Puck reported it asThe G.O.P.’s Kansas Bailout & Dem Ad Counterpunches (opens Puck in a new tab)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton privately told donors that the recent GOP convention in Dallas negatively impacted his polling numbers. His campaign adviser dismissed the leaked audio as 'manipulated nonsense'. Paxton is in a close race against state Rep. James Talarico.
Puck reported it asPaxton’s Hot Mic & The Senate’s Parting Shots (opens Puck in a new tab)
The FBI sought to launch a pay-to-play investigation into interactions between Senator Susan Collins and a top donor, Martin Kao, but the probe reportedly ended after Donald Trump returned to office. Kao was indicted for illegal campaign contributions.
Puck reported it asCollins Under Fire & Iowa’s Upset Watch (opens Puck in a new tab)
China's ambassador to the US, Xie Feng, warned that Beijing has 'red lines' on Taiwan, human rights, and other issues that cannot be crossed. He stated that China's sovereignty, security, and development interests cannot be violated, identifying four specific areas that must not be challenged.
Puck reported it asCan Trump & Xi Really Solve Our A.I. Future? (opens Puck in a new tab)
Paramount has threatened to leave California since July, when the state sued to block its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is taking the threat seriously, while California's Attorney General Rob Bonta calls it blackmail.
Puck reported it asPressure-Testing Paramount’s Relocation Threat (opens Puck in a new tab)
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to reject a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. The measure, introduced by Rep. Al Green, was related to Trump's immigration enforcement policies. The final vote was 232 against 147, with 47 members voting present.
Puck reported it asHouse Impeachment Doom Loops & The G.O.P.’s “Crazy” Playbook (opens Puck in a new tab)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has cancelled its planned 2027 Met Gala exhibition featuring designer John Galliano. The decision follows significant backlash over the designer's past antisemitic and racist comments.
Puck reported it asWhat Drove the Met-Galliano Retreat? & For Sale: Aimé Leon Dore (opens Puck in a new tab)
Donald Trump announced his political operation has approximately $850 million available. He stated plans to spend a significant portion of these funds to support Republican candidates in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. This amount is separate from other funds raised by his network.
Puck reported it asMAGA Inc.’s Missing Signature & Van Hollen ’28 Chatter (opens Puck in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Puck reported it asDemocrats’ Michigan Muddle & Blanche’s Revival (opens Puck in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Puck reported it asWill El-Sayed Hand the Senate to Trump? (opens Puck 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- PuckIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- puck.news
- Seen publishing on
- puck.news
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 14
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
14 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 6 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Puck ran the story anyway.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Puck: its report arrived a median of 30 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 2 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 November 2026. Ratings pulled 8 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Puck, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Puck 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.