Is Refinery29 biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Refinery29 on the left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Refinery29 biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Refinery29 on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Refinery29 left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Refinery29 on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Refinery29 reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Refinery29 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 Refinery29 has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Refinery29’s own report linked underneath.
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
Refinery29 reported it asWe Grew Up With Hayden Panettiere. Now We’re Reckoning With How Hollywood Failed Her. (opens Refinery29 in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- Sundial Media GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- refinery29.com
- Seen publishing on
- refinery29.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 18 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 Refinery29 cover a story that outlets rated left 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 Refinery29: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 August 2026. Ratings pulled 18 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Refinery29, 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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