Outlet track record
Associated Press (via ABC News)
U.S. center to center-left
The Associated Press is a not-for-profit wire service owned cooperatively by U.S. news organizations and headquartered in New York City; ABC News distributes AP wire content under a standard licensing arrangement. Media watchdogs rate AP's orientation as center to mildly center-left. Since early 2025, AP has been in an active legal dispute with the Trump administration after being barred from White House press pool events over its refusal to adopt the term 'Gulf of America,' placing its coverage in a broadly critical posture toward the current administration.
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LeaningU.S. center to center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun