WSET media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give WSET one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WSET biased?
The rating organisations do not give WSET one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WSET left or right?
The rating organisations do not give WSET one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is WSET reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WSET are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WSET has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WSET’s own report linked underneath.
US President Donald Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a summit at the White House on September 24. The leaders are expected to discuss trade, rare earth supplies, and artificial intelligence. Xi's visit marks the first by a Chinese leader to the US presidential residence in over a decade.
WSET reported it asTrump takes inaugural flight from White House helipad as networks boycott event coverage (opens WSET in a new tab)
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.
WSET reported it asTV networks refuse White House pool coverage after CNN barred from assignment (opens WSET in a new tab)
A newly unveiled statue of Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters was defaced with red paint. The vandalism occurred days after the statue's unveiling and coincided with the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination.
WSET reported it asTurning Point USA vows to restore vandalized Charlie Kirk statue, reviews police footage (opens WSET in a new tab)
Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit against streamer Hasan Piker, alleging antisemitism and incitement of violence. Klayman seeks over $150 million in damages and an injunction, citing Piker's alleged statements about Hamas and Jews.
WSET reported it asJudicial Watch founder sues Hasan Piker over alleged antisemitism, 'violence against Jews' (opens WSET in a new tab)
Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks are calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to not attend the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony at Ground Zero. A petition to ban him has gathered over 98,000 signatures, and families plan to ignore him if he attends.
WSET reported it as9/11 victim families; 100,000 other petitioners don't want Mamdani at memorial ceremonies (opens WSET in a new tab)
US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The talks occurred as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a potential ceasefire, while Russian missiles struck airports near Kyiv.
WSET reported it asUS envoys meet with Putin in new push to end Ukraine war (opens WSET in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
WSET reported it asFlash floods, mudslides kill 72 in northern Nepal; 384 missing, including 3 Americans (opens WSET in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
WSET reported it asFlash floods, mudslides kill 72 in northern Nepal; 384 missing, including 3 Americans (opens WSET in a new tab)
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor and former Bush adviser, is the early frontrunner to replace outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, though multiple sources say the selection process remains open. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met Jennings at a Washington steakhouse, but other names, including Natalie Harp, are also under consideration.
WSET reported it asScott Jennings pushing for White House press secretary job: Report (opens WSET in a new tab)
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley has invited former special counsel Jack Smith to testify on 22 September 2026 about his investigation into President Donald Trump. Smith’s lawyers confirmed his appearance pending Justice Department approval, while outlets diverged on whether the hearing relates to his prosecutions or broader oversight.
WSET reported it asJack Smith gets invite to testify before Senate next month. Here's why. (opens WSET 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.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Sinclair Broadcast GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 4 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 WSET ran the story anyway.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than WSET’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 19 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 22 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WSET, also publishing from Cyprus, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where WSET publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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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.