Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates The Epoch Times in the Skews Right category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. The Epoch Times is an international newspaper founded in 2000 by Chinese-Americans who had fled Communism in China. It is published online in 22 languages and in 36 countries. Based in New York City, it is owned by the Epoch Media Group. It publishes in both print and online around the world.

Ad Fontes Media conducted an audit of The Epoch Times during the summer of 2025. Find out more about the audit process here.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for The Epoch Times according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 34.45

Bias: 8.14

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
The Forgotten Art of Being Prepared	11.67	33.33
The Fall Financial Checkup: Retirement Readiness Review Before the New Year	1.33	33.0
No Murder in Paradise? Socialist Ideologues Insist We Reject Truth and Accept What We’re Told	19.0	20.33
US Tightens Ban on Chinese Tech Gears	0.0	42.33
Trump Says US to Share Nuclear-Powered Submarine Tech With South Korea	1.0	41.33
Hegseth Announces New Lethal Strike on Alleged Drug Boat in the Pacific	4.0	42.67
Why We Need Border Control	3.33	31.33
Union President Plays Down Strike Risk as Air Traffic Controllers Face No Pay	4.33	41.0
US Consumer Confidence Holds Steady as Job Market Shows Signs of Firming	0.0	41.67
Netanyahu Orders New Israeli Military Strikes on Gaza	0.0	45.0
Amazon to Cut 14,000 Corporate Jobs Amid AI Push	0.0	44.0
48 Percent of Americans Want Bad Bunny to Perform at Super Bowl Halftime Show: Poll	2.67	40.67
Hurricane Melissa Could Hit Jamaica as a Category 5	0.0	44.33
3 Stretching Exercises for Relieving Lower Back Tension and Pain	0.0	41.67
US Airports Hit With Hours-Long Delays Due to ‘Staffing Issues’ Amid Government Shutdown	5.33	40.0
The Unexpected Joys of Large Families	5.67	31.67
June Lockhart, Beloved Mother Figure From ‘Lassie’ and ‘Lost in Space,’ Dies at 100	0.67	41.33
US, China Agree on Preliminary Trade Framework Before Trump–Xi Meeting	3.33	40.67
USDA Says SNAP Benefits Will Expire for 41 Million People If Shutdown Persists	-0.67	42.33
WHO Modifies CCP Virus Test Guidelines, Warns Against Overreliance on PCR Results	18.67	5.33
CDC: No Record of Naturally Immune Transmitting COVID-19	10.33	15.33
Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates Among Vaccinated Children Than Unvaccinated, CDC Data Show	14.33	16.67
‘Unethical’ and Up to 98 Times Worse Than the Disease: Top Scientists Publish Paradigm-Shifting Study About COVID-19 Boosters for Young Adults	10.0	7.0
Doctor Who Promoted COVID Shots on TV Calls for Global Stop to COVID-19 Vaccines: Study	13.33	17.67
Pfizer Exec Concedes COVID-19 Vaccine Was Not Tested on Preventing Transmission Before Release	12.0	18.0