State / loyalist
estimate · not a score
WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
🇵🇸PS ·
state agency · state-controlled
· wafa.ps
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State / loyalist
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| Founded | 1972-06-05 — PLO Executive Committee decision establishing the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA), following an April 1972 resolution of the Palestinian National Council in Cairo · source |
| Headquarters | Ramallah, Palestine — Al-Mokatt'a Street, across from PLO headquarters · source |
| Funding | |
| Reach | Publishes in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew via separate language sites (wafa.ps, english.wafa.ps, french.wafa.ps, hebrew.wafa.ps); its About page states permanent membership in the Federation of Arab News Agencies and the Islamic States News Agencies Organization, and membership in the Non-Alig |
| In its own words | describes itself as "an independent body that was structurally, politically and administratively linked to the PLO Executive Committee"; states it "seeks to produce and disseminate news and information on Palestine worldwide as well as to provide readers with insight into events from a Palestinian perspective" |
| Identity | Wikipedia |
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we
have measured from published text, per article, with the quote.
Ownership
| Holder | Type | Stake | Control | Instrument | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLO Executive Committee | state body | not disclosed | yes | charter | — | link |
| Palestinian National Authority | state body | not disclosed | yes | state funding | — | link |
Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.
Editorial control
Chairman
Named on PBC's own About Us page as the presidentially-appointed supervisor of official media since January 2016.
Editor-in-Chief
Covers
What we hold from them
Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it
Four dead at a wedding in Kuhestak. Three of four experts say the munition was American.
— read, nothing on this event
Troops killed two at al-Mughayyir. The IDF says it went in for livestock.
— read, nothing on this event
The US energy secretary says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz on Monday. AFP says Iran has shut the strait.
— read, nothing on this event
Saudi Arabia says Iran hit the tanker Sidr in Hormuz. AFP, on the same site, calls the attacks unclaimed.
— read, nothing on this event
France 24 says twelve countries will ban settlement goods; the Jerusalem Post calls it the "UK's Israel boycott"
— read, nothing on this event