Is USA Today biased?
The bias data this site ingests places USA Today as leaning left. 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 2 published stories of ours.
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 USA Today 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 USA Today.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Seen publishing on
- usatoday.com
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
2 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.
We have not seen USA Today cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- USA TodayLeans leftHigh factualityU.S. State Department to close consulates in Canada, Japan and Indonesia, sources say (opens USA Today in a new tab)
New York, New York, United StatesOwner: USA TODAY Co., Inc.
Our report: US State Department to close five foreign missions in downsizing
- USA TodayLeans leftHigh factuality‘I’ll eat anything.’ RFK Jr. tells USA TODAY in an exclusive interview (opens USA Today in a new tab)
New York, New York, United StatesOwner: USA TODAY Co., Inc.
Our report: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches YouTube cooking show promoting red meat and dairy
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.