Upward News media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Upward News as leaning right. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Upward News biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Upward News as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Upward News left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Upward News as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Upward News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Upward News are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Upward News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Upward News’s own report linked underneath.
President Donald Trump vetoed CNN, Politico, and MS NOW, impacting audiovisual coverage of his UN trip. In response, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox halted their joint television coverage of Trump, citing solidarity with the banned outlets.
Upward News reported it as☕ Daily Brief: Trump Mainstream Media Ban (opens Upward News in a new tab)
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker stated that the United States causes more deaths globally than al-Qaeda. His remarks have drawn criticism from Republicans and scrutiny for Democrats associated with him, including Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
Upward News reported it as☕ Daily Brief: "America Is Worse Than Al-Qaeda" (opens Upward News in a new tab)
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reject a federal judge's order that halts new rules for mail-in voting. The appeal comes as North Carolina prepares to send out mail ballots, with a whistleblower report warning the new rules could prevent millions of ballots from being sent.
Upward News reported it asFeds Fight for Tighter Mail-In Voting Rules (opens Upward News in a new tab)
Senator Ted Cruz stated that the United States has met its primary military objectives in Iran, defending Donald Trump's "mission accomplished" declaration. He also praised an agreement giving the US control over 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil and urged for free elections in Venezuela.
Upward News reported it asHistoric Venezuela Oil Deal Cements US Dominance (opens Upward News in a new tab)
Iranian state media broadcast a video that allegedly suggests how to kill Barron Trump and offers a $10 million bounty for information. The Secret Service confirmed it is aware of the video and investigating the threats.
Upward News reported it as☕ Daily Brief: Iran Targets Barron Trump (opens Upward News in a new tab)
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke business and tourism visas for up to 200,000 foreigners seeking asylum in the US. The State Department expects to announce the action, which would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history, in the coming weeks.
Upward News reported it asTrump Moves to Revoke 200,000 Visitor Visas (opens Upward News in a new tab)
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed asked Fox News host Jesse Watters if he was circumcised during an interview. The question came as they discussed gender-affirming care for minors, with El-Sayed defending his position by comparing it to circumcision.
Upward News reported it asEl-Sayed Likens Sharia Law to Catholic Canon (opens Upward News in a new tab)
A New York appellate judge lifted a temporary restraining order, allowing New York City to proceed with its pied-à-terre tax rollout while a lawsuit from homeowners challenging the process continues. The tax, championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has drawn opposition from President Donald Trump and legal scrutiny over its implementation.
Upward News reported it asRents Soar Amid Mamdani’s Affordability Push (opens Upward News in a new tab)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declined to endorse Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist running in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, instead advising voters to judge candidates on their present stances. Hong’s past comments on policing and Thanksgiving have drawn criticism, while right-rated outlets highlighted the lack of endorsements from Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.
Upward News reported it as☕ Daily Brief: Why AOC Condemned “Woke” (opens Upward News in a new tab)
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on ABC’s “This Week” that the first wave of progressive rhetoric, which she labelled “Woke 1”, was “crazy”. She made the remark while discussing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, who has faced criticism for past social media posts calling to abolish prisons and cancel Thanksgiving.
Upward News reported it asAOC Tries to Erase Her Woke Past (opens Upward News 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.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Upward NewsIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- upward.news
- Seen publishing on
- upward.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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
10 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 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Upward News ran the story anyway.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Upward News: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 26 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 26 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Upward News, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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