Truthdig media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Truthdig on the left. We have seen it on 12 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Truthdig biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Truthdig on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Truthdig left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Truthdig on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Truthdig reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Truthdig 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 Truthdig has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Truthdig’s own report linked underneath.
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.
Truthdig reported it asAfter the Midterms, Democrats Must Keep Cleaning House (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
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.
Truthdig reported it asAfter the Midterms, Democrats Must Keep Cleaning House (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
US news outlets will announce midterm election winners before all votes are tallied, using data from the Associated Press or Decision Desk HQ. These providers use vote counts, statistical analysis, and modeling to project outcomes, though past race calls have been retracted.
Truthdig reported it asDown the Stretch, GOP Feels ‘Trepidation’ in Texas (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
President Donald Trump attended a Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Saturday, arriving dressed as himself. He told reporters that his costume preparation took only ten minutes, while other guests spent significantly longer.
Truthdig reported it asThe Republicans’ Closing Argument (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secretly acquire and hack a voting machine. Career staff raised concerns, and the operation did not proceed.
Truthdig reported it asThe Gutting of Election Security (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
Lawyers for Oscar Belgal filed a petition in Brooklyn federal court alleging an ICE officer fired into his car without warning while his son was present. DHS officials claim officers fired after Belgal rammed government vehicles.
Truthdig reported it asICE Shooting Victim in NYC Held in Solitary Confinement (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
The Justice Department has threatened California with legal action over concerns that noncitizens may have received mail ballots for upcoming midterm elections. The state has been given 48 hours to review voter rolls and segregate ballots of unverified individuals.
Truthdig reported it asDOJ to California: Halt Ballots to Suspected Noncitizens (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
The Department of Homeland Security used $20 million in taxpayer funds for advertisements that critics say glorify President Donald Trump and may violate anti-propaganda laws. The ads were funded through U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Truthdig reported it asTrump TV Ads Used $20 Million in Homeland Security Funds (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
A United Nations report published on September 2, 2026, states that global temperatures are likely to exceed the 1.5°C warming threshold within a few years. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for rapid emissions cuts and carbon removal to limit damage.
Truthdig reported it asClimate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready? (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
State Democratic officials are preparing legal and administrative measures to counter potential federal interference in the November midterms, citing President Trump’s push to nationalise election administration. Republican officials say they will uphold voting laws, but concerns persist over local election deniers in key counties.
Truthdig reported it asNo More ‘Hypothetical Situations’: States Move to Fortify Elections Against Trump (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
Russia’s Defence Ministry reported continued strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure and vessels in Odesa and Mykolaiv on 8 August 2026. The attacks targeted military tanks storing communication equipment and ships linked to Ukraine’s armed forces, according to the ministry and corroborated by multiple outlets.
Truthdig reported it asRussia’s Lockdown of Odesa Port Could Be a Grim Turning Point in War (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Truthdig reported it asEl-Sayed vs. Stevens, And The Electability Hustle (opens Truthdig in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- Zuade KaufmanBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Official site
- truthdig.com
- Seen publishing on
- truthdig.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
- 12
- Reports listed
- 12
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
12 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 4 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Truthdig ran the story anyway.
Across the 12 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Truthdig: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
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