Is The Scottish Sun biased?
Ad Fontes Media places The Scottish Sun as leaning right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MedialeanRightCheck it
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.
Mixed factuality
- Ad Fontes MediamixedCheck it
Who owns it
- News UKunknowndirect owner
- News CorpMedia Conglomerateparent group
- Murdoch familyMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Official site
- thescottishsun.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- thescottishsun.co.uk
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was 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 Scottish Sun cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The Scottish Sun: its report arrived a median of 6 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 Scottish SunLeans rightMixed factualityAfghanistan national, 26, arrested over death of Scot dumped in suitcase (opens The Scottish Sun in a new tab)
Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Our report: Suspect in Athens suitcase killing of Elisabeth Ross to appear in court
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Scottish Sun, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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.