Is The Independent biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Independent as leaning left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
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
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
Who owns it
- Independent Digital News and Media LimitedCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- independent.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- independent.co.uk
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
- 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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 3
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
6 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 3 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Independent ran the story anyway.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 3 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityState Department quietly moves to shut five overseas posts (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media Limited
Our report: US State Department to close five foreign missions in downsizing
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityCargo ship reports being struck in Strait of Hormuz as US, Iran claims about talks diverge (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media LimitedCarried from Associated Press News
Our report: Ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityMamdani hits back at ‘insane’ MAGA claim that grocery rules prove need for voter ID (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media Limited
Our report: New York mayor rejects conservative claim grocery stores prove need for voter ID
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityFormer '60 Minutes' correspondents Pelley, Alfonsi go from newsroom to classroom (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Our report: Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi leave CBS '60 Minutes' for teaching roles
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityContractors building border wall ordered to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media LimitedCarried from Associated Press News
Our report: Trump administration halts border wall well drilling in New Mexico after rancher protests
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityUS signs deal to triple Patriot production as wars deplete stockpiles (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media Limited
Our report: US signs framework deal to triple Patriot missile production
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityA federal judge lets DHS proceed with a border wall through a small Texas town’s levee system (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media LimitedCarried from Associated Press News
Our report: US judge allows border wall segment near Presidio, Texas to proceed
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityDenmark’s Princess Isabella starts military service as conscription expands (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media Limited
Our report: Denmark extends military service to 11 months as Princess Isabella enlists
- The IndependentLeans leftHigh factualityBone study shows Ice Age hunters were picky about what mammoths they killed and ate (opens The Independent in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media Limited
Our report: Denmark extends military service to 11 months as Princess Isabella enlists
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.