Is The Messenger biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Messenger one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
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Is The Messenger biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Messenger one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Messenger left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Messenger one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The Messenger reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Messenger are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Messenger.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- the-messenger.com
- Seen publishing on
- the-messenger.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
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
3 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 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Messenger ran the story anyway.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Messenger: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The MessengerLeans rightHigh factualitySpanish Prime Minister Sanchez fends off blistering criticism within the EU over Ceuta crisis (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Our report: EU leaders criticise Spain over Ceuta migrant surge as 80 die
- The MessengerLeans rightHigh factualityAncient DNA confirms European colonizers brought smallpox to Americas (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Our report: Ancient DNA links colonial smallpox in Americas to European strains
- The MessengerLeans rightHigh factualityBrazil's police raid suspects accused of using chemicals to clear the Amazon rainforest (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Our report: Brazil police target group accused of chemical deforestation in Amazon
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Messenger, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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.