Is The Independent (US) biased?
The bias data this site ingests places The Independent (US) as leaning left. 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 3 published stories of ours.
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 Independent (US) 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.
Mixed 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 Independent (US).
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Seen publishing on
- the-independent.com
- 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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Independent (US) ran the story anyway.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The Independent (US)Leans leftMixed factualityMamdani hits back at ‘insane’ MAGA claim that grocery rules prove need for voter ID (opens The Independent (US) in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United KingdomOwner: Independent Digital News and Media LimitedCarried from The Independent
Our report: New York mayor rejects conservative claim grocery stores prove need for voter ID
- The Independent (US)Leans leftMixed factualityFormer '60 Minutes' correspondents Pelley, Alfonsi go from newsroom to classroom (opens The Independent (US) 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 Independent (US)Leans leftMixed factualityContractors building border wall ordered to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico (opens The Independent (US) in a new tab)
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Our report: Trump administration halts border wall well drilling in New Mexico after rancher protests
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.