WBMA media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WBMA as leaning right. We have seen it on 32 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WBMA biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WBMA as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WBMA left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WBMA as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is WBMA reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WBMA 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 WBMA has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WBMA’s own report linked underneath.
Florida carried out its 19th execution of the year, matching a state record. Jesse Guardado was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. on the same day that Indiana and Alabama also administered the death penalty.
WBMA reported it asAlabama executes Michael Taylor for 1991 murders of Ivan and Lucille Moore (opens WBMA in a new tab)
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.
WBMA reported it asDemocrats shatter GOP strongholds in sweeping midterm victories (opens WBMA 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.
WBMA reported it asDemocrats shatter GOP strongholds in sweeping midterm victories (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Republican Barry Moore has won the U.S. Senate election for Alabama, defeating Democrat Everett Wess. Moore, a south Alabama congressman, secured the victory with an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.
WBMA reported it asBarry Moore wins Alabama’s open U.S. Senate race (opens WBMA in a new tab)
The office of Republican Senator Susan Collins in Biddeford, Maine, was vandalized with red paint on the sidewalk reading 'Blood on her hands'. This is the second such incident in about a month, occurring just before Election Day.
WBMA reported it as'Blood on her hands' graffiti appears outside Sen. Collins' Biddeford office (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Iran's army has warned that any new US attack would spread the conflict to a wider geographical area. The warning comes amid diplomatic efforts to avert further hostilities and as both the US and Israel hold crucial elections.
WBMA reported it asIran’s leader threatens retaliation without limits as Trump weighs new strikes (opens WBMA in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
WBMA reported it asFact Check Team: What early voting numbers tell us about the midterm election (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Weekend unrest in France left roughly 3,000 shops damaged and could generate claims exceeding €13 billion. Authorities launched a digital tool to identify looters, and insurers prepared to assist, though coverage may be limited.
WBMA reported it asFrance deploys 70,000 police, elite units to head off protests, riots (opens WBMA in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump confirmed he may move the White House press corps to a different location. He dismissed reports that he planned to remove the press room and restore a historic swimming pool, calling such an idea 'stupid'.
WBMA reported it as'Fake News': Trump denies plan to remove White House press room, calls suggestion 'stupid' (opens WBMA in a new tab)
On 19 October 2026, US President Donald Trump said it might be time for President Zelensky to hand over peace talks, claimed earlier peace was possible if Zelensky had followed his advice, defended lifting sanctions on Russia and criticised Kyiv’s attacks on Moscow’s energy sites, noting the US continues to share intelligence with Ukraine.
WBMA reported it asTrump accuses Zelenskyy of prolonging war as Russia pounds Ukraine's power grid (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated in an interview with Bloomberg that steps have been taken to persuade Ukraine to surrender to Russia. He believes relations with the US may calm after the upcoming elections and indicated potential meetings with Trump envoys.
WBMA reported it asTrump accuses Zelenskyy of prolonging war as Russia pounds Ukraine's power grid (opens WBMA in a new tab)
A U.S. banking regulator found that nine of the nation's largest banks denied services to customers based on political, religious, or social views. The report, spanning 2020 to September 2025, was based on 100,000 complaints and hundreds of individual bank decisions.
WBMA reported it asBig banks discriminated against conservative groups, citing 'reputation risk': report (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Hassan Kariem, a teacher at Wesley International Academy, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Police stated he was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling. Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar roller coasters.
WBMA reported it asMan who died at Six Flags survived cancer twice and a car fire with his daughter (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance made remarks about Democratic candidate James Talarico's search history, focusing on transgender kids and drag queens. Vance's comments have drawn criticism, with some outlets calling them homophobic and unfounded.
WBMA reported it asVance on midterms: 'We know that we're swimming upstream' (opens WBMA in a new tab)
James Robertson, 63, is set to be executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to killing his cellmate in 2008, claiming he did so to be moved to death row. Governor Ron DeSantis also withdrew a death warrant for another inmate.
WBMA reported it asFlorida executes prisoner who admitted killing cellmate to get death sentence: authorities (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Hassan Kariem, a teacher at Wesley International Academy, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Police stated he was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling. Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar roller coasters.
WBMA reported it asSix Flags Over Georgia's Goliath evacuated: 1 visitor dead, officials say (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Newly released police body-camera footage shows the aftermath of a shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, where a six-year-old boy shot his first-grade teacher, Abigail Zwerner. The footage was shown as evidence in a criminal trial and was later unsealed.
WBMA reported it asBODYCAM: 6-year-old admits taking gun after shooting Virginia teacher (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are expected to face new charges in the United States related to the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuelan custody. The charges would add to existing drug trafficking indictments.
WBMA reported it asNicolás Maduro & his wife might face new charges over alleged torture of Americans: report (opens WBMA in a new tab)
President Donald Trump will present the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other tech executives at a White House ceremony on Thursday. The event is part of a summit titled 'Science: A New Golden Age'.
WBMA reported it asTrump to award National Medal of Science to Musk, Brin, Huang, and Su at White House (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Flydubai has suspended all flights to and from Israel for six days following an incident aboard flight FZ1073. An Omani co-pilot is suspected of attempting a terror attack, prompting emergency consultations among Israeli leadership. The airline is cooperating with authorities during the investigation.
WBMA reported it asIsraeli officials believe attempted hijacker may have been carrying out act of terror (opens WBMA in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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
- Sinclair Broadcast GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- abc3340.com
- Seen publishing on
- abc3340.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
- 32
- Reports listed
- 33
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
33 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 8 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and WBMA ran the story anyway.
Across the 32 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than WBMA’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 26 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 6 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 November 2026. Ratings pulled 8 October 2026.
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