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Semafor
U.S. center-left
Semafor is a privately held digital news outlet founded in 2022 and backed by a mix of media, finance, and tech investors. AllSides rates its editorial output as lean-left, and its coverage of the Trump administration's second term reflects that skeptical orientation without being stridently adversarial. The outlet reached profitability in 2025 and has positioned itself as a serious global news platform, with revenue split between advertising and a growing live-events business.
Owned byPrivately held; co-founded and owned by Ben Smith and Justin B. Smith, with investors including KKR co-founder Henry Kravis, Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, 3G Capital co-founder Jorge Paulo Lemann, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, media investor David G. Bradley, Stand Together, and the international Antenna Group
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
2average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun