The Lever media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Lever one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Lever biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Lever one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Lever left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Lever one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Lever reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Lever are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Lever has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Lever’s own report linked underneath.
Asian stock markets saw a significant rise following Anthropic's initial public offering filing, which disclosed strong revenue growth alongside substantial losses. Meta Platforms' large equity fundraising also contributed to the positive sentiment.
The Lever reported it asThe Blackmail Warning In Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Household water bills in the US have risen faster than inflation and income, according to a new analysis. The average annual cost for water reached $531 in 2025, a 62% increase from 2015.
The Lever reported it asYour Tap Water Could Have A 67 Percent Markup (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Leaked audio from a private fundraising lunch reveals Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton admitting he feels he has less control over his U.S. Senate campaign, stating its direction comes from Washington D.C. This is the second leaked recording from the same event.
The Lever reported it asThe GOP Has A Texas Problem (opens The Lever in a new tab)
The White House has established a new task force, named the ‘Super Intelligence Force’, to evaluate the risks associated with artificial intelligence. Led by Jay Clayton, director of national intelligence, the group has 120 days to produce its findings on government responsibility over the technology.
The Lever reported it asHe Botched The Epstein Files. Now He’s Trump’s Intelligence And AI Lead. (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Paramount has settled lawsuits brought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America concerning its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlements pave the way for the $81 billion deal to proceed, pending final court approval.
The Lever reported it asWhat’s Hiding In The Paramount Merger Settlement (opens The Lever 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 Lever reported it asChris Deluzio On John Fetterman: “A Failure Of Leadership” (opens The Lever in a new tab)
The House of Representatives voted to adopt a resolution condemning socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. The measure passed largely along party lines, though eight Democrats joined Republicans in support. The resolution also included language backing President Trump’s priority voting rights legislation.
The Lever reported it asRogue Dems Join GOP To Condemn Socialism (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Hakeem Jeffries told NBC’s Meet the Press he does not support the Democratic Socialists of America agenda or Medicare for All legislation, though he said DSA members could join the Democratic caucus. The remarks drew criticism from progressives and were reported across the political spectrum, with outlets differing on what he left unsaid.
The Lever reported it asHakeem Jeffries’ Betrayal Shows Why Democratic Voters Are So Enraged (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District primary pits 14-term incumbent John Larson against former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, who argues for generational change. Larson’s office says he is fit to serve after a 2025 seizure, but the race reflects broader Democratic debates over leadership age.
The Lever reported it asMeet The Billionaire Behind Connecticut’s “Insurgent” Victory (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
The Lever reported it asWhat You Need To Know Before Tomorrow’s Democratic Reckoning (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
The Lever reported it asProgressive Abdul El-Sayed Challenges "Electability” Attacks (opens The Lever in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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
- David SirotaBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- levernews.com
- Seen publishing on
- levernews.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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
11 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 5 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and The Lever ran the story anyway.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Lever: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 2 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 1 November 2026. Ratings pulled 4 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Lever, 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 Lever 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.
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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.