Nearly half of UK news articles about Muslims contain bias: Report

Title:
Study Reveals Bias in UK Media Coverage of Muslims

Subtitle:
Nearly half of news articles about Muslims in 2025 showed some level of bias, according to a major media monitoring report.

Summary:
A new report by the Centre for Media Monitoring found that a large number of news articles about Muslims in the United Kingdom contained biased language or perspectives. Researchers reviewed more than 40,000 articles from 30 major media outlets published in 2025.

The study found that about 20,000 out of 40,913 articles showed some form of bias. It also reported that roughly 70% of the articles linked Muslims or Islam with negative behaviors or social issues.

According to the report, several right-leaning media outlets were responsible for a significant portion of the biased coverage. The outlet with the highest proportion of strongly biased articles was The Spectator. Other outlets mentioned in the report include GB News, The Telegraph, The Jewish Chronicle, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Mail and The Times.

Rizwana Hamid, director of the Centre for Media Monitoring, said the findings are concerning and suggest a pattern of structural bias in how Muslims are portrayed in parts of the British press.

Source: Newstimehub