Salon media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Salon on the left. We have seen it on 29 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Salon biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Salon on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Salon left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Salon on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Salon reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Salon 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 Salon has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Salon’s own report linked underneath.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sent representatives home early for their pre-election recess. This move postpones a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which had been initiated by Rep. Thomas Massie over Hegseth's actions in Iran and Venezuela.
Salon reported it asJohnson is the GOP's top scaredy-cat (opens Salon in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
Salon reported it asMitch McConnell is back, and it’s terrifying (opens Salon in a new tab)
Representative Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Massie alleges Hegseth continued U.S. military operations in Iran without congressional approval and criticizes his actions in Venezuela and Yemen.
Salon reported it asThomas Massie calls to impeach Pete Hegseth as Iran war looms over midterms (opens Salon in a new tab)
Joe diGenova, the top prosecutor in a Justice Department probe into former officials targeting Donald Trump, has resigned. His departure followed a tense phone call with Attorney General Todd Blanche and could lead to further delays in the investigation.
Salon reported it asTrump's made man fails to get indictment (opens Salon in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated the United States can afford to send $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans retain control of Congress. He indicated the payments would be made after the election, and a White House budget official discussed the funding plan.
Salon reported it asHow anti‑bribery laws apply to Trump’s promise of $5,000 payments (opens Salon in a new tab)
Donald Trump confirmed he uses artificial intelligence but declined to specify how, stating only that it can be used for "a lot of things." He also commented on the technology's future, saying "whoever wins in artificial intelligence wins."
Salon reported it as“Hoax”: Trump dismisses AI concerns among bipartisan calls for regulation (opens Salon in a new tab)
Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations on artificial intelligence, stating that the U.S. government already possesses adequate power to control AI firms. He described efforts to implement guardrails as a "sick conspiracy" that could cede technological leadership to China.
Salon reported it as“Hoax”: Trump dismisses AI concerns among bipartisan calls for regulation (opens Salon in a new tab)
Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding in the Bahamas was funded by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who is close to Vladimir Putin. Kremlev paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses, including renting a private island. National security experts expressed alarm.
Salon reported it asDonald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding was secretly bankrolled by Russian oligarch close to Putin (opens Salon in a new tab)
Documents obtained by multiple outlets reveal that Atlantic Industrial Coatings admitted its own design and workmanship flaws caused the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner to blister and detach. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said the damage resulted from a botched installation, and the government agreed to a $14.7 million repair payment.
Salon reported it asTrump blamed vandals. His contractor blamed itself (opens Salon in a new tab)
AI company Anthropic has blocked researchers from using its models for work that could potentially aid biological weapons development. The company stated it could not determine if the research served a legitimate scientific purpose or malicious intent, citing attempts to circumvent restrictions and obscure research goals.
Salon reported it asAnthropic says it blocked use of bad actors developing bioweapons (opens Salon in a new tab)
Jimmy Kimmel announced his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico would not air on ABC due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pressure. The interview will instead be posted on YouTube. The decision comes amid a broader dispute between ABC's parent company, Disney, and the FCC over broadcast licenses.
Salon reported it asLooks like Jimmy Kimmel isn't done dealing with FCC "nonsense" (opens Salon in a new tab)
Two protesters were arrested outside the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas. Mounted police and officers in riot gear were deployed as demonstrators marched near the venue. Organisers estimated up to 10,000 people would attend separate rallies.
Salon reported it asTrump’s emotional support convention (opens Salon in a new tab)
Beverly Vance Aikins, mother of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, said she would “probably punch” Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El‑Sayed and called him an “idiot” after he criticised her son’s family on Fox News and Tomi Lahren’s show.
Salon reported it asJD Vance's chivalry to his wife Usha fools no one (opens Salon in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked new U.S. Postal Service rules that could delay mail-in ballots, following warnings from a whistleblower and election officials. The Trump administration is appealing the order.
Salon reported it asNew mail voting rules moved forward despite USPS officials’ concerns about mass disenfranchisement (opens Salon in a new tab)
A whistleblower has raised alarms about a new U.S. Postal Service system designed to verify mail ballots, alleging it is being developed with inadequate testing and a rushed timeline. The system, intended to comply with a Trump executive order, could lead to the rejection of large numbers of ballots.
Salon reported it asUSPS whistleblower alleges rushed mail ballot systems could disenfranchise voters (opens Salon in a new tab)
A federal judge is considering a legal challenge to block President Donald Trump's name from being inscribed on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The dispute centers on whether the center's board can add the name after a judge ruled only Congress has that authority.
Salon reported it asTrump's new Kennedy Center threat (opens Salon in a new tab)
CIA Director John Ratcliffe was reportedly in Moscow for meetings, according to US media. The Kremlin stated no talks with US envoys were scheduled for that week. A US military aircraft flew from Riga to Moscow.
Salon reported it asCIA’s visit to Moscow is no big deal, according to Trump (opens Salon in a new tab)
A Texas appeals court reduced a $50 million judgment against Infowars founder Alex Jones to $1.5 million. The ruling pertains to his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. A separate $1.4 billion judgment in Connecticut remains unaffected.
Salon reported it asAlex Jones owed Sandy Hook parents nearly $50 million. A court just cut it to $5.6 million (opens Salon in a new tab)
The Pentagon has fired Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and reporter Lara Korte. Slavin stated he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview where he objected to potential military censorship of news for service members.
Salon reported it asHegseth fires "Stars and Stripes" journalists, deepens Pentagon press crackdown (opens Salon in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court on 17 August 2026 declined for the second time to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million jury verdict in favour of writer E. Jean Carroll. The decision leaves intact a 2023 finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll in the 1990s.
Salon reported it asRoberts is still in the tank for Trump (opens Salon in a new tab)
Who says so
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High factuality
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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
- 29
- Reports listed
- 29
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
29 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 Salon ran the story anyway.
Across the 29 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Salon: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 September 2026.
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