The Keystone media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Keystone one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Keystone biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Keystone one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Keystone left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Keystone one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Keystone reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Keystone are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Keystone has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Keystone’s own report linked underneath.
Environmental groups and a coalition of states have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration over its decision to relax vehicle fuel economy rules. The administration claims the move offers more choice, while critics argue it will increase pollution and fuel costs.
The Keystone reported it asPa. sues over Trump’s EPA eliminating rule that limits emissions from power plants (opens The Keystone in a new tab)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a keynote address at a conference for the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense, which he formerly chaired. He told attendees they had a friend in the Trump White House and highlighted administration actions to alter vaccine guidance.
The Keystone reported it asKennedy tells anti-vaccine activists they have a friend in Trump's White House (opens The Keystone in a new tab)
A Wall Street Journal report has led to criticism of Senator John Fetterman from former staffers and Democratic lawmakers. The report alleges Fetterman has shown little interest in his work, including constituent meetings and attending certain events.
The Keystone reported it asDems tell Fetterman he ‘needs to quit’ after WSJ revelations (opens The Keystone in a new tab)
Pennsylvania officer charged with manslaughter after shooting college student at wrong house
Trust 42A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting a 22-year-old college student who knocked on the wrong door. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced the charge on 1 September 2026, stating the officer’s actions were not justified.
The Keystone reported it asPennsylvania police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in killing of college student (opens The Keystone in a new tab)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has excluded two measles-associated deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its latest weekly update. The agency stated the decision was made pending further investigation into the cause of the deaths.
The Keystone reported it asMeasles deaths reported in Pennsylvania spark fight among politicians and health officials (opens The Keystone in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on 18 August 2026 imposing new restrictions on data center development, including local approval requirements and removal from fast-track permitting. The move reverses his earlier support for such projects and follows bipartisan opposition to their environmental and energy impacts.
The Keystone reported it asWill Shapiro’s data center order impact Pa. Senate races? (opens The Keystone in a new tab)
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.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Keystone.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- keystonenewsroom.com
- Seen publishing on
- keystonenewsroom.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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 21 August 2026
6 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Keystone ran the story anyway.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Keystone: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 October 2026. Ratings pulled 20 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Keystone, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The Keystone 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.
Report something wrong on this page
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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.