The Corner media bias and reliability
The Corner is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Corner biased?
The Corner is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Corner left or right?
The Corner is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is The Corner reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for The Corner. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What The Corner has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Corner’s own report linked underneath.
Six European Union countries have formally requested the introduction of an EU-wide tax on exceptional profits made by oil companies. The ministers argue that these companies are experiencing profit margins that outpace the rise in crude oil prices, exacerbated by the Middle East conflict.
The Corner reported it asSpain and five other countries demand an extraordinary tax on oil companies from Brussels (opens The Corner in a new tab)
Germany’s trade deficit with China widened to €55 billion in the first six months of 2026, as exports dropped over 12% to €37 billion and imports climbed 8.9% to €91.8 billion. China fell to the ninth-largest market for German goods, down from second place in 2021, amid weaker domestic demand and Chinese self-sufficiency.
The Corner reported it asGermany’s economic reality far less negative than public sentiment suggests, according to DWS (opens The Corner in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed The Corner. We asked on 11 August 2026.
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 The Corner.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- thecorner.eu
- Seen publishing on
- thecorner.eu
- 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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
2 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. The Corner has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Corner: its report arrived a median of 4 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 28 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 28 August 2026. Ratings pulled 11 August 2026.
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