Is The New American biased?
The rating organisations do not give The New American one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The New American biased?
The rating organisations do not give The New American one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The New American left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The New American one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Far right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The New American reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The New American are Ad Fontes Media: Very low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The New American has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The New American’s own report linked underneath.
Florida's Attorney General issued a subpoena to Anthony Fauci on 29 May 2024, demanding records related to potential self-dealing during his leadership of the pandemic response. The move follows Fauci's invocation of the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a Senate hearing last week.
The New American reported it asWill Fauci Suffer Any Consequences? (opens The New American in a new tab)
The US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles, including ATACMS and PrSM, during five months of war with Iran, according to multiple anonymous sources. Stockpiles of defensive interceptors have also fallen sharply, with 65% of Patriot missiles expended since February.
The New American reported it asReports: U.S. “Virtually” Out of Long-range Missiles. Army General: U.S. Can No Longer Defend Israel (opens The New American in a new tab)
The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation in 2017 to determine whether Donald Trump acted as a Russian asset when he fired FBI Director James Comey. Declassified documents show the probe, linked to the Crossfire Hurricane inquiry, was dropped in April 2019 with no charges filed. An official said the theory lacked evidence.
The New American reported it asTrump Accuses Obama of Treason Over 2016 "Russia Hoax" (opens The New American in a new tab)
A Catholic archbishop in Spain publicly criticised mass migration as a tool for political gain after thousands of people attempted to cross into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco. Right-rated outlets reported the statement, while no left- or centre-rated outlets covered the story.
The New American reported it asMoroccan Invasion of Ceuta Wanes, but Enclave Trashed, Residents Terrified (opens The New American 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.
Low factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The New American.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- thenewamerican.com
- Seen publishing on
- thenewamerican.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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
4 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.
We have not seen The New American cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than The New American’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 35 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 9 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 August 2026. Ratings pulled 9 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The New American, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The New American 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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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.