The Bureau media bias and reliability
The bias data this site ingests places The Bureau in the centre. 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.
The short answers
Is The Bureau biased?
The bias data this site ingests places The Bureau in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Bureau left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places The Bureau in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Bureau reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes The Bureau as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Bureau has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Bureau’s own report linked underneath.
Declassified FBI memos detail a three-year investigation into Eric Swalwell’s ties to suspected Chinese intelligence operative Fang Fang, including illegal straw donations, interns placed in his office, and a sexual relationship. The case was shelved for national security reasons in 2017.
The Bureau reported it asDeclassified FBI Files Reveal Congressman Swalwell Was Investigated Over Alleged Chinese Spy’s Interns-for-Campaign-Cash Scheme (opens The Bureau in a new tab)
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 The Bureau 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 The Bureau.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Seen publishing on
- thebureau.news
- 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
- 18 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The Bureau is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Bureau: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 26 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 23 August 2026. Ratings pulled 18 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Bureau, also publishing from Canada, 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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