Il Tempo is rated Right with Mixed factual reporting by Media Bias Fact Check.
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- Overall, we rate Il Tempo as Right-Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that consistently favor the Italian center-right, and Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing, one-sided framing, the absence of a right of reply, and contested figures presented as established fact.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: RIGHT (6.4)
Factual Reporting: MIXED (5.0)
Country: Italy
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
History
Founded in 1944 by journalist Renato Angiolillo, Il Tempo is an Italian daily newspaper published in Rome. The paper produces a Rome edition available nationally, plus local editions for Lazio, Abruzzo, and Molise, and operates the sister titles Corriere di Rieti and Corriere di Viterbo. Coverage centers on national politics and Rome city affairs, with sections for current affairs, foreign news, economy, sport, entertainment, opinion columns and a video channel, Il Tempo TV.
Read our media profile on Italy.
Funded by / Ownership
Il Tempo S.r.l. is controlled by Editoria Italia S.r.l., the Angelucci family publishing group that also owns Libero and Il Giornale; the board is chaired by Giampaolo Angelucci, with Nicola Speroni as CEO, as disclosed on the paper’s Chi siamo page. Group patriarch Antonio Angelucci is a sitting Lega deputy. Revenue comes from newsstand sales, digital subscriptions, advertising, and e-commerce.
Analysis / Bias
Il Tempo covers Italian politics from a right-wing perspective, favoring the Meloni government and criticizing the opposition. Straight news reports often read like opinion pieces. For example, in “Meloni al Fenix: tetto agli alunni stranieri, stop a burqa e hijab a scuola”, “the article is mostly just a long transcript of the Prime Minister’s speech, with nothing added to question or explain her claims. She says center-left regional presidents are wrong about who pays for election campaigns, but the paper never asks those officials to respond. The claims about €200 billion in Superbonus debt and a €3,500-per-citizen Five Star campaign appear without sourcing. The announced decree, a statutory cap on foreign pupils per class and a hijab ban in schools, is legally contentious policy reported as an applause line, with no constitutional expert, school administrator, or Muslim community voice. The piece closes on the anthem, the ovation, and the selfies, which function as an endorsement.
This article, “Più sicurezza e centri per migranti nei Paesi ‘sicuri’ di origine e transito: Conte svolta copiando male Meloni,” uses emotionally charged language in the headline, which states a judgment rather than a fact, declaring that Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte has badly copied Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The article continues this throughout, referring to Conte as the “people’s lawyer” and “the lawyer from Volturara Appula,” and to his party as the “ex-Grillini” and “M5S 2.0,” while attributing his policy shift to a desire for parliamentary seats. It describes suburbs as made unlivable by a maranza “virus,” a term for young men of immigrant background, without citing crime data. The migrant centers in Albania are described as well-run facilities that comply with European law, though this is the question Italian and EU courts have been ruling on. The claim that the Five Star proposal would cost more than the Albania arrangement is made without figures. No representative of Conte is quoted in response, and the sourcing rests on unnamed associates.
Political reporting is written by staff reporters rather than opinion columnists, yet it consistently presents the center-right position favorably while giving the opposition no opportunity to respond, and rarely seeks comment from the officials or parties being criticized.
Failed Fact Checks
- Only 2.9% of Italy’s reported COVID-19 deaths were actually caused by COVID-19, meaning roughly 3,783 of 130,468 deaths were due to the virus itself. – False
- “Reportopoli”, August 2026. Il Tempo published figures it attributed to thirty RAI Report journalists under a “pharaonic salaries” headline, while conceding mid-article that RAI sources said the sums were gross and included production costs. The program’s staff replied that the numbers were false and inflated, represented total segment spending rather than individual pay, and ignored that most of them are contractors who self-fund travel and editing; a defamation suit followed, reported by LaPresse and Fanpage. The paper held that the figures were exact. Running gross production budgets under a salaries headline is a framing failure, and the alignment with governing-party messaging was immediate: Fratelli d’Italia filed a parliamentary question the same day and publicly backed the editor against the suits.
Overall, we rate Il Tempo as Right-Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that consistently favor the Italian center-right, and Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing, one-sided framing, the absence of a right of reply, and contested figures presented as established fact. (M. Huitsing 09/20/2026)
Source: https://www.iltempo.it/
Last Updated on September 20, 2026 by Media Bias Fact Check
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