Is SF Weekly biased?
AllSides places SF Weekly in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is SF Weekly biased?
AllSides places SF Weekly in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is SF Weekly left or right?
AllSides places SF Weekly in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is SF Weekly reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for SF Weekly. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What SF Weekly has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with SF Weekly’s own report linked underneath.
A Government Accountability Office audit found the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, claimed $110bn in savings that were either inaccurate or unsupported. The report also revealed 128 of 206 DOGE employees had left by January 2026, and agencies withheld ethics records.
SF Weekly reported it asGAO says DOGE couldn't substantiate much of its claimed savings (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing on COVID-19 origins. The resolution, opposed by all Democrats, was sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
SF Weekly reported it asDemocrats accuse Republicans of partisanship in Fauci contempt vote (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance said a White House task force identified $230 billion in fraud and stopped $56 billion in fraudulent payments. He called for Congress to enact tougher penalties and codify anti-fraud measures to prevent a future Democratic administration reversing the work.
SF Weekly reported it asWhite House launches fraud dashboard, touts success (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
A hacker extracted 633,000 voter registration records from Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2020, including sensitive data on 930 individuals. The FBI confirmed the breach and urged prosecution, but four prosecutors refused to press charges, closing the case by 2023.
SF Weekly reported it asDeclassified docs reveal over 600k voter files hacked; prosecutors declined prosecution (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote Tuesday on advancing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination after Republican senators secured written assurances that a $1.8 billion fund tied to the Trump-IRS settlement would not proceed. Democrats argue the guarantees fall short of permanent protections.
SF Weekly reported it asIn Blanche confirmation process, Tillis wins a round against mercurial Trump (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
The US Defence Department signed a framework deal on 3 August 2026 to triple Patriot missile production and quadruple THAAD output. The agreement, with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, establishes a second source for PAC-3 rocket motors and increases ignition safety device production, though its monetary value remains undisclosed.
SF Weekly reported it asPentagon expands missile production with prices not yet set (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
President Donald Trump established the Presidential Commission on Military Spouses, appointing Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as its chair. The commission will address housing, employment and education challenges for military families and submit annual recommendations to the President.
SF Weekly reported it asLatest executive order establishes military spouse commission (opens SF Weekly in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for SF Weekly.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States
- Official site
- sfweekly.com
- Seen publishing on
- sfweekly.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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
7 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. SF Weekly is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of SF Weekly: its report arrived a median of 21 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as SF Weekly, 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.
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.