Santa Maria Times media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Santa Maria Times in the centre. We have seen it on 268 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Santa Maria Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Santa Maria Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Santa Maria Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Santa Maria Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Santa Maria Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Santa Maria Times are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Santa Maria Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Santa Maria Times’s own report linked underneath.
Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Monday, buoyed by stabilising technology and AI stocks and a sharp drop in crude oil prices. Hopes for a US-Iran peace deal were cited as a factor in the oil price decline.
Santa Maria Times reported it asAsian shares are mixed and US futures advance, while oil prices retreat (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
A criminal investigation is underway in Alaska concerning a scheme to confuse voters by placing a candidate with the same name as incumbent Senator Daniel Sullivan on the ballot. U.S. Attorney Michael Heyman confirmed the probe, which has intensified following a New York Times report.
Santa Maria Times reported it asTop federal prosecutor in Alaska says criminal probe underway over would-be spoiler Senate candidate (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
Santa Maria Times reported it asIndagan Hacking $6.3 Billion Into Binance; It's Perhaps the Biggest Cryptocurrency Theft. (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV has urged the creation of international institutions to enforce ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence. Speaking at a Vatican gathering, he emphasized that AI should remain a tool, not a person, and that humans must retain control over its development and decisions.
Santa Maria Times reported it asPope says 'most urgent' challenge facing AI race is need for institutional ethical framework (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
US stock indexes, including the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, opened higher on Tuesday. Easing oil prices and anticipation of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision influenced market sentiment, alongside a focus on corporate earnings, particularly those related to artificial intelligence.
Santa Maria Times reported it asUS futures and Asian stocks advance following a rally on Wall Street (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
US stock markets opened with mixed performance on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, as investors closely watched the unfolding midterm congressional election results. Oil prices also continued their downward trend.
Santa Maria Times reported it asUS futures and Asian stocks advance following a rally on Wall Street (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
AI company Anthropic has filed for an initial public offering on Nasdaq, warning investors about potential catastrophic or existential risks to humanity from advanced AI systems. The company detailed these concerns in its IPO paperwork, dedicating a significant portion to risk factors.
Santa Maria Times reported it asRisks spelled out for Anthropic investors include possible harms from runaway AI (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has secured a fourth term as Brazil's president, defeating right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro challenged the election results, while international leaders congratulated Lula on his victory and commitment to democracy.
Santa Maria Times reported it asLula’s win in Brazil bucks a regional shift to the right and denies Trump a powerful ally (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Chris Brown is scheduled for sentencing on Monday at London's Southwark Crown Court for a bottle attack at a nightclub. He pleaded guilty to affray, but reports differ on when the incident occurred.
Santa Maria Times reported it asSinger Chris Brown to be sentenced over bottle attack at a London nightclub (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Rising mortgage rates and inflation have left US home sellers lowering prices and offering buyer concessions. Median listing prices fell 1.2% to $419,250 in September, while 21% of homes saw initial price cuts. Liz Suder sold her Texas home for $650,000 after multiple reductions; Rick Ganga in Washington still has no offers on his $825,000 listing.
Santa Maria Times reported it asUS Housing Vendors Lower Prices and Help Buyers in a Stagnant Market (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
China's Communist Party began its Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee in Beijing on October 26. President Xi Jinping opened the meeting, which is scheduled to last four days and focuses on enhancing party discipline and self-governance.
Santa Maria Times reported it asKeys to the Meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in Which Xi Seeks More Discipline (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
A federal court in Brazil has ordered the government to provide transportation and other support for Indigenous people to vote in the presidential runoff. The ruling addresses significant logistical challenges faced by remote communities.
Santa Maria Times reported it asTHE LAST: Court Orders the Government to Provide Transportation so that Indigenous People Can Vote (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that a potential resumption of war with the US and Israel would not alter Iran's policies. He also indicated that the management of the Strait of Hormuz would not return to its pre-war status.
Santa Maria Times reported it asIran says messages are still being passed to the US amid war concerns, and other Mideast news (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
France deployed thousands of police officers to manage protests over living costs and school funding. A planned march in Paris was rerouted to the city's southeastern edge, with authorities citing concerns over potential unrest and damage to businesses.
Santa Maria Times reported it asThousands march in France over schools and living costs as police use tear gas (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Several US cities are exploring the use of driverless trains, with Washington D.C. and Los Angeles advancing plans for automated subway systems. Honolulu already operates a driverless metro. The move sparks debate over safety, cost, and the future of transit innovation.
Santa Maria Times reported it asSome US transit systems weigh whether to run trains without a human at the controls (opens Santa Maria Times 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.
Santa Maria Times reported it asUkraine Says There Are No More Starlink Speed Limits After Slowing Down that Curbed Their Drones (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Descendants of enslaved people are organizing for reparations in the US, facing opposition from the Trump administration. A UN resolution on slavery trafficking, supported by over 120 nations, saw the US vote against it, alongside Argentina and Israel.
Santa Maria Times reported it asAs Trump fights over what America owes, slavery descendants organize for the future (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited China, arriving in the border city of Dandong via a newly opened bridge. This marks his first visit to the country in more than a year, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Santa Maria Times reported it asNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits China, South Korean news agency reports (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city, is experiencing a severe water crisis. Iran-backed Houthi rebels have intensified their siege, limiting access to water sources and delivery trucks. Humanitarian groups report that the needs of over one million residents are barely being met.
Santa Maria Times reported it asDrinking water supplies dwindle in Yemeni city besieged by Houthi rebels (opens Santa Maria Times in a new tab)
Three tankers carrying Russian diesel are heading to the eastern Atlantic coast of the United States. The shipments are part of an agreement between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase fuel supplies and lower prices.
Santa Maria Times reported it asRussia Leaves for the US First Shipment of Diesel, Despite Protests From Ukraine (opens Santa Maria Times 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Santa Maria Times.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, United States
- Official site
- santamariatimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- santamariatimes.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
- 268
- Reports listed
- 272
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
272 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Santa Maria Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 268 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Santa Maria Times: its report arrived a median of 27 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 5 October 2026.
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