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Agence France-Presse
French state-linked, international center to center-left
AFP is a French public-interest news agency whose 1957 founding statute formally mandates editorial independence, though the French government holds three board seats and funds roughly one-third of its budget. It operates alongside Reuters and the Associated Press as one of the world's three dominant wire services, with coverage that media-bias evaluators place slightly center-left to near-center by international standards. Its reporting on the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, and in 2025 the agency faced financial pressure after Trump administration officials moved to terminate tens of millions of dollars in U.S. government wire-service contracts.
Owned byFrench public-interest entity established by a 1957 parliamentary statute; governed by an 18-member board, three seats held by French government representatives; cannot be privately owned or nationalized under its charter
LeaningFrench state-linked, international center to center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun