The Messenger media bias and reliability
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 62 published stories of ours.
The short answers
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.
What The Messenger has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Messenger’s own report linked underneath.
Researchers have identified a new wild cat species, Leopardus tilcayo, in Bolivia's Yungas forest. The small feline, measuring about 45-46 cm and weighing 1.4 kg, is the first new wild cat species described in more than 100 years.
The Messenger reported it asMeet Earth’s newest wild cat species, the first named in over a century (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to address the European Parliament. This follows a proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for Canada to become the EU's first associate member, a move US President Donald Trump has criticised.
The Messenger reported it asCarney welcomes a proposal for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Russia launched missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, injuring at least 19 people, including children. Ukrainian forces responded with overnight strikes targeting an oil refinery in Yaroslavl and a military airfield in Rostov.
The Messenger reported it asRussian missile and drone attacks injure at least 19, including children, in Ukraine (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv and Odesa, injuring at least 13 people and damaging buildings including residential structures, warehouses, and a gas station. A child was among those wounded in Odesa.
The Messenger reported it asRussian missile and drone attacks injure at least 19, including children, in Ukraine (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Huawei has announced plans to release four new Ascend AI chips within the next three years, aiming to compete with Nvidia. The Ascend 950 chip will feature proprietary high-bandwidth memory, a key technological advancement for China. The company also plans new computing power supernodes.
The Messenger reported it asHuawei unveils new chip technologies as Chinese firm steps up the AI race with Nvidia (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
The Messenger reported it asMcConnell appears in Senate on Monday after June hospitalization (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stated the United States is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks scheduled for this weekend. The discussions aim to prevent the bifurcation of AI systems between the two countries.
The Messenger reported it asA global AI safety strategy depends on US-China cooperation. They each see the other as the problem (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Myanmar state media reported the deportation of US businessman Adam Castillo after he spent months in jail. Supporters claim the charges against him were fabricated. The Washington Post reported Castillo had been jailed for three months.
The Messenger reported it asUS businessman Adam Castillo deported from Myanmar after months in jail, state media says (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
North Korea's Ministry of Defense has stated that nuclear weapons could be used in response to actions by the US and South Korea. This statement follows defense talks between the two nations aimed at strengthening cooperation against potential weapons of mass destruction attacks from Pyongyang.
The Messenger reported it asSouth Korean court orders North Korea to pay $32.5 million for blowing up joint liaison office (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Satellite data has detected a large fire and thermal anomalies near Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline. Unconfirmed reports suggest Houthi forces may be responsible, though Saudi authorities have not confirmed the incident.
The Messenger reported it asSaudi Arabia says major East-West oil pipeline was shut down as a precaution after it was attacked (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are set to be sentenced Friday. They face up to 10 years in prison for inciting subversion under the national security law, a case seen as a measure of freedoms in the city.
The Messenger reported it asHong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prison in national security case (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Firefighters have entered a charred ferry in Philippine waters following a blaze that killed at least five people and left 84 missing. Rescuers are continuing their search for those unaccounted for after the vessel caught fire two nights prior.
The Messenger reported it asPhilippine firefighters enter charred ferry as rescuers search for 84 missing (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that the government is studying the latest U.S. tariffs and import bans. He indicated that Canada is considering whether to adjust its own retaliatory tariffs and called the U.S. trade bans 'modest'. Carney recently spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The Messenger reported it asCarney calls Trump’s latest trade measures ‘relatively modest,’ signals restraint (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
US Vice President JD Vance stated the conflict with Iran is not a war and that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is nearly back to normal. President Trump is reportedly considering declaring victory.
The Messenger reported it asIran claims a strike on a US ship in the Strait of Hormuz but the US denies it (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The talks occurred as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a potential ceasefire, while Russian missiles struck airports near Kyiv.
The Messenger reported it asUS envoys Kushner and Witkoff arrive in Kyiv in their first official Ukraine visit in a renewed push to end Russia’s war (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Ten people died when a fuel tanker exploded on a western Iran highway on 5 September 2026, after a traffic accident, according to state media. Officials called for drivers to exercise caution and obey safety regulations.
The Messenger reported it asA fuel tanker explosion in west Iran kills 11 and injures 7 (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Cambodia's army announced it will resume joint military exercises with the United States in February next year. The drills, named 'Exercise Angkor Sentinel 2027,' were suspended in 2017. The resumption follows recent high-level meetings aimed at improving relations, though US concerns about Cambodia's ties to China remain.
The Messenger reported it asCambodia’s army to resume joint military exercises with the US next year (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated the US will respond forcefully to Iranian attacks on American bases in Jordan and the UAE. The exchange of fire follows a US strike on Iran's Larak Island, with both sides issuing threats of further action.
The Messenger reported it asIran fires on its Gulf neighbors, retaliating for US military strikes after a monthlong lull (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand after 200-day Middle East mission amid crew welfare concerns
Trust 78The USS Abraham Lincoln reached Thailand after a 200-day deployment in the Middle East, the longest continuous sea duty in modern US Navy history. Reports of supply shortages, morale problems, and a possible suicide attempt prompted a Senate inquiry and a replacement carrier dispatch.
The Messenger reported it asUSS Abraham Lincoln crew visits Thailand’s Pattaya, in photos (opens The Messenger in a new tab)
A glacier collapse, not an earthquake, caused the devastating flash floods in Nepal and Tibet, according to the United States Geological Survey. The event sent ice, rock, and debris into a river, causing catastrophic flooding. Experts are now concerned about the potential for a second flood.
The Messenger reported it asSymbolic funerals held in Nepal for those feared lost as some missing tourists make contact (opens The Messenger 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
- 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
- 62
- Reports listed
- 63
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
63 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 21 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Messenger ran the story anyway.
Across the 62 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than The Messenger’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 22 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
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.
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