The Real News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Real News on the left. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Real News biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Real News on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Real News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place The Real News on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is The Real News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Real News are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Real News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Real News’s own report linked underneath.
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
The Real News reported it asEconomic and anti-establishment populism trounces Trump in historic blue tsunami (opens The Real News in a new tab)
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
The Real News reported it asEconomic and anti-establishment populism trounces Trump in historic blue tsunami (opens The Real News in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump has announced that Washington will cease financial aid to Israel by the end of the year. The decision has drawn criticism from Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan and revealed surprise among Israeli defense and finance officials.
The Real News reported it asIn election day stunt, ‘serial liar’ Trump deceitfully says US to end Israel aid (opens The Real News in a new tab)
Dockworkers in 22 countries launched a coordinated strike on October 30, 2026, protesting arms shipments and the use of ports for military purposes. Organizers estimate significant disruption to Mediterranean cargo and billions of dollars in freight.
The Real News reported it asWith ‘largest coordinated port action ever,’ dockworkers in 22 countries strike against Gaza genocide (opens The Real News in a new tab)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has secured a fourth term as Brazil's president, defeating right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro challenged the election results, while international leaders congratulated Lula on his victory and commitment to democracy.
The Real News reported it asBrazil’s Lula wins ‘historic victory’ against right-wing Trump ally Flávio Bolsonaro (opens The Real News in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, who challenged her dismissal by President Donald Trump. The court's decision upholds a lower court's ruling that validated Trump's executive authority in the firing.
The Real News reported it asSupreme Court rejects Trump bid to halt care for incarcerated trans people (opens The Real News in a new tab)
Former President Donald Trump has strongly advocated for data centers, stating that communities opposing them risk becoming "backwards and poor." He suggested that such opposition could benefit China and urged support for the facilities as a path to prosperity.
The Real News reported it asOut-of-touch Trump says communities that reject AI data centers will be ‘backwards and poor’ (opens The Real News in a new tab)
Prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have condemned streamer Hasan Piker for remarks described as antisemitic. The condemnations follow Piker's calls for violence against capitalists and his comments regarding Jewish support for Israel.
The Real News reported it as‘Mass psychosis’: corporate Democrats ripped for attacks on anti-zionist Hasan Piker (opens The Real News in a new tab)
A federal judge has lifted a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting. The Supreme Court ruled a previous challenge was premature, but states have filed a new lawsuit arguing the USPS rule interferes with election administration.
The Real News reported it asDemocrats, groups fight back after Supreme Court clears way for Trump attack on mail voting (opens The Real News in a new tab)
Donald Trump told a conservative broadcaster he would not rule out declaring a national security emergency to enforce voter ID and proof-of-citizenship rules for federal elections. Legal experts say no president has the authority to change election laws unilaterally, but Trump has not dismissed the idea.
The Real News reported it asTrump doesn’t rule out ‘national security emergency for elections’ floated by far-right host (opens The Real News 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
- Independent World Television IncIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Official site
- therealnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- therealnews.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 10
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 13 August 2026
10 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 Real News 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 Real News: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
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