Is The Watchers biased?
The Watchers is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is The Watchers biased?
The Watchers is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Watchers left or right?
The Watchers is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is The Watchers reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Watchers are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Watchers has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Watchers’s own report linked underneath.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit 32 km southwest of Sarangani Island in the southern Philippines on 5 August 2026, with no tsunami warning issued. Local officials reported panic but no confirmed casualties or damage. The region had suffered a deadly 7.8-magnitude quake in June.
The Watchers reported it asStrong and shallow M6.3 earthquake hits Mindanao, Philippines (opens The Watchers in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed The Watchers. We asked on 7 August 2026.
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 Watchers.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- watchers.news
- Seen publishing on
- watchers.news
- 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
- 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. The Watchers has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
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 Watchers: its report arrived a median of 3 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 August 2026. Ratings pulled 7 August 2026.
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.