wtma.com media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places wtma.com on the right. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is wtma.com biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places wtma.com on the right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is wtma.com left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places wtma.com on the right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is wtma.com reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for wtma.com are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What wtma.com has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with wtma.com’s own report linked underneath.
A California bill aiming to ban addictive social media features for users under 16 has passed the state Assembly. This development coincides with Meta agreeing to a significant settlement with 29 states regarding youth safety and social media use.
wtma.com reported it asHow those in the classroom are viewing $17 billion Meta settlement (opens wtma.com in a new tab)
Pete Buttigieg returned to South Carolina to engage with Black voters, a demographic he struggled to connect with during his 2020 presidential campaign. His visit included stops at a Black church and a historically Black university, sparking discussion about a potential 2028 presidential bid.
wtma.com reported it asPete Buttigieg returns to South Carolina as he weighs another White House run (opens wtma.com in a new tab)
Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has endorsed Republican Congressman Ralph Norman in the upcoming US Senate runoff election. Norman is facing Senator Darline Graham in the Republican primary, with election day set for August 25.
wtma.com reported it asMark Sanford endorses Ralph Norman in special GOP Senate runoff (opens wtma.com in a new tab)
Interim Sen. Darline Graham, appointed after her brother Lindsey Graham’s death, said during a debate that national security is ‘not my thing’. The comment came in response to a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea, and has drawn criticism from her opponent’s supporters ahead of the 25 August runoff.
wtma.com reported it asSen. Darline Graham meets Berkeley County voters after debate with Rep. Ralph Norman (opens wtma.com in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckrightCheck it
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 CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for wtma.com.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- wtma.com
- Seen publishing on
- wtma.com
- 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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 20 August 2026
4 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and wtma.com ran the story anyway.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of wtma.com: its report arrived a median of 15 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 4 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 September 2026. Ratings pulled 19 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as wtma.com, 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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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where wtma.com 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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