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Is Times Live biased?

The bias data this site ingests places Times Live as leaning right. 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.

Leans rightHigh factuality

The short answers

Is Times Live biased?

The bias data this site ingests places Times Live as leaning right. 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 Times Live left or right?

The bias data this site ingests places Times Live as leaning right. 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 Right.

Is Times Live reliable?

The factuality data this site ingests describes Times Live as 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 Times Live 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.

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 Times Live.

Where it publishes from

Publishes from
Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Seen publishing on
timeslive.co.za
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
6 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.

On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Times Live ran the story anyway.

Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Times Live: its report arrived a median of 2 days 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

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.

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