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Honolulu Civil Beat
U.S. center-left
Honolulu Civil Beat is a Hawaii-based nonprofit digital news outlet founded in 2010 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, which converted from a for-profit model to a nonprofit in 2016. Its editorial output leans center-left, with progressive-leaning commentary on issues like the environment, education, and immigration. Its coverage of the second Trump administration has been broadly critical, focusing on federal funding cuts to Hawaii, ICE enforcement, rollbacks of environmental protections, and perceived federal overreach into state elections.
Owned byNonprofit organization; founded by Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder) and Randy Ching; majority funding historically from Pierre and Pam Omidyar via the Omidyar ʻOhana Fund at the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun