# Truthout

> Truthout is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in United States. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Left**.

- **Domain:** truthout.org
- **Website:** https://truthout.org
- **Country:** United States
- **Region:** North America
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Left
- **Founded:** 2001

## About

Truthout covers prisons, borders, labor and climate as if each beat were a single movement story, treating the boundary between reporter and advocate as a choice rather than a rule. What is unusual is the density: long-form abolitionist analysis sits next to breaking dispatches, so readers toggle registers inside a single scroll. That register toggle is the reading signal; lose it and the site reads louder than it is.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Truthout Inc, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit
- **Funding:** Primarily reader donations and foundation grants; advertising-free; operates a Center for Grassroots Journalism as an internal grantmaking arm
- **Focus areas:** Mass incarceration and prison abolition, climate, labor, reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, militarism, immigration


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

Read from this source's RSS feed. Follow the link to the newsroom that published it.

- [Big Oil Is Spending Record Amounts to Stop California From Regulating It](https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-is-spending-record-amounts-to-stop-california-from-regulating-it/) — 2026-08-29T22:48:45.000Z
- [New Yorkers Are Pushing Their State to Stop Investing Millions in Israel Bonds](https://truthout.org/articles/new-yorkers-are-pushing-their-state-to-stop-investing-millions-in-israel-bonds/) — 2026-08-29T17:01:30.000Z
- [Israel Restricts Cooking Gas Into Gaza, So We Must Burn Toxic Plastic to Cook](https://truthout.org/articles/israel-restricts-cooking-gas-into-gaza-so-we-must-burn-toxic-plastic-to-cook/) — 2026-08-29T15:43:03.000Z
- [Texas Prosecutor Will Take Houston ICE Killing Case to Grand Jury](https://truthout.org/articles/texas-prosecutor-will-take-houston-ice-killing-case-to-grand-jury/) — 2026-08-29T14:52:50.000Z
- [Trump Administration Reportedly Nearing Deal to Take Over Venezuelan Oil Fields](https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-take-over-venezuelan-oil-fields/) — 2026-08-29T14:06:14.000Z
- [Democrat Calls for Criminal Probe of RFK Jr. for Lying in Confirmation Hearing](https://truthout.org/articles/democrat-calls-for-criminal-probe-of-rfk-jr-for-lying-in-confirmation-hearing/) — 2026-08-28T18:10:07.000Z
- [Trump Admin Eyes Deal to Give Away Yosemite Park Land to Real Estate Firm](https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-eyes-deal-to-give-away-yosemite-park-land-to-real-estate-firm/) — 2026-08-28T18:10:02.000Z
- [Nevada Governor Endorsed Data Centers Days After AI Investor Donated $1 Million](https://truthout.org/articles/nevada-governor-endorsed-data-centers-days-after-ai-investor-donated-1-million/) — 2026-08-28T17:13:51.000Z

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-04-14. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 8 (3 themes).

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