Taiwan News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Taiwan News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Taiwan News biased?
The rating organisations do not give Taiwan News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Taiwan News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Taiwan News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Taiwan News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Taiwan News 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 Taiwan News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Taiwan News’s own report linked underneath.
Tens of thousands gathered for Taiwan's annual Pride parade in Taipei, one of Asia's largest LGBTQ+ celebrations. Organizers estimated 150,000 people attended the event, which follows a recent police raid on a gay bar in the city.
Taiwan News reported it asThousands march through Taipei for transgender equality | Taiwan News | Oct. 31, 2026 10:33 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
Taiwan's National Security Council secretary-general has highlighted a significant Chinese naval presence, posting a map of 53 vessels including warships and an aircraft carrier. He described the threat to Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines as 'obvious'.
Taiwan News reported it asTaiwan monitors Liaoning carrier group drilling near First Island Chain | Taiwan News | Oct. 29, 2026 10:26 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
Pakistan has closed its airspace to all airlines from Taiwan, citing support for Beijing's 'One China' policy. This move, confirmed by Pakistan's Defence Minister, has led Taiwanese carriers to reroute flights, with some now using Russian airspace. Pakistan is reportedly the first country to implement such a ban.
Taiwan News reported it asPakistan closes airspace to Taiwan airlines | Taiwan News | Oct. 28, 2026 20:00 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
SK Hynix is asking the U.S. for permission to send chipmaking equipment to its facility in Dalian, China. This request is linked to the company's plans to build a new NAND factory in the United States.
Taiwan News reported it asTaiwan to impose strict controls on AI chip exports to China | Taiwan News | Oct. 16, 2026 20:16 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has welcomed an announced energy truce between Russia and Ukraine but expressed doubt that Russia will abide by it. She stated that the truce would benefit Russia more than Ukraine and called for continued pressure on Moscow.
Taiwan News reported it asTrump announces Ukraine energy ceasefire with Russia, surprising Zelenskiy | Taiwan News | Oct. 12, 2026 12:15 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
US Ambassador to China David Perdue claimed President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy American weapons. The White House has denied any plans to sell arms to China, stating that US law prohibits such sales.
Taiwan News reported it asUS envoy says Trump asked Xi about buying American weapons | Taiwan News | Sep. 28, 2026 17:02 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te visited the frontline island of Kinmen on August 23, 2026, to mark the 68th anniversary of a key battle with Chinese forces. He stated that peace can only be secured through strength and not an inch of territory should be sacrificed.
Taiwan News reported it asLai visits Kinmen to commemorate 823 Artillery Battle | Taiwan News | Aug. 23, 2026 20:03 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
Taiwan’s top representative in Japan, Lee Yi-yang, boycotted the 81st anniversary memorial of the Nagasaki atomic bombing after his delegation was not seated among diplomatic missions. Nagasaki officials said the seating was not clearly distinguished as nondiplomatic, while Lee called the arrangement an insult to Taiwan’s sovereignty.
Taiwan News reported it asTaiwan protests seating at Nagasaki peace ceremony | Taiwan News | Aug. 9, 2026 14:59 (opens Taiwan News in a new tab)
Taiwan began its annual Han Kuang military exercise on 5 August 2026, running combat drills for troops and reservists to practise repelling an attack. Civilians will face air raid drills and temporary mobile internet slowdowns. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has repeatedly threatened to use force to seize the island.
Taiwan News reported it asTaiwan kicks off Han Kuang 42 military exercise | Taiwan News | Aug. 5, 2026 19:44 (opens Taiwan News 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
- I-Mei FoodsCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Taipei City, Taiwan
- Official site
- taiwannews.com.tw
- Seen publishing on
- taiwannews.com.tw
- 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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
9 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 Taiwan News ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Taiwan News: its report arrived a median of 22 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 November 2026. Ratings pulled 10 October 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Taiwan News publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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