Is The Star Kenya biased?
The bias data this site ingests places The Star Kenya in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Star Kenya biased?
The bias data this site ingests places The Star Kenya in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Star Kenya left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places The Star Kenya in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is The Star Kenya reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes The Star Kenya as very high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups The Star Kenya on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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.
Very high factuality
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Star Kenya.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Kenya
- Seen publishing on
- the-star.co.ke
- 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The Star Kenya is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
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 Star Kenya: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- The Star KenyaCentreVery high factualityTrump denies US weapons shortage and says information 'leakers' being 'hunted down' (opens The Star Kenya in a new tab)
Kenya
Our report: Trump denies US munitions shortages, threatens leakers with prison
- The Star KenyaCentreVery high factualityRussian strike kills at least 17 as Zelensky says interceptors could have saved lives (opens The Star Kenya in a new tab)
Kenya
Our report: Russian Strikes Kill Over a Dozen in Kyiv, Destroy Rozetka Warehouse
- The Star KenyaCentreVery high factualityWorld's oldest president reshuffles army as his absence stokes unease (opens The Star Kenya in a new tab)
Kenya
Our report: Cameroon President Paul Biya absent for two months amid health concerns
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.