Is Semafor biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Semafor as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Semafor on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Semafor.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Seen publishing on
- semafor.com
- 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
- 4 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 Semafor 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 Semafor: its report arrived a median of 30 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- SemaforLeans leftHigh factualityExclusive: Battleground Democrats try to stay above their party’s fray (opens Semafor in a new tab)
New York, New York, United States
Our report: Michigan Senate Primary Pits El-Sayed Against Stevens in Democratic Test
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.