Is Slate biased?
The rating organisations do not give Slate one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is Slate biased?
The rating organisations do not give Slate one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Slate left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Slate one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Slate reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Slate are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
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
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High factuality
Who owns it
- The Slate GroupIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story Slate appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
None yet. This fills in as Slate appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Slate, 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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