# The Washington Times

> The Washington Times is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in United States. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Right**.

- **Domain:** washingtontimes.com
- **Website:** https://www.washingtontimes.com
- **Country:** United States
- **Region:** North America
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Right
- **Founded:** 1982

## About

The Washington Times has one structural fact that distinguishes it from every other right-wing paper in the United States: it was founded in 1982 and bankrolled for decades by Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, whose counter-communist press vision shaped the paper's foundational editorial identity. That origin story is now rarely discussed in the paper itself, even as the Unification Church's affiliated ownership structure remains in the background. Rated Right and Mixed Factuality by MBFC, it is most useful as a record of conservative opinion journalism in Washington with an ownership history that is unlike anything else in the American press.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Operations Holdings, an entity affiliated with the Unification Church media structure
- **Funding:** Advertising; historically subsidized by Unification Church-affiliated funding
- **Focus areas:** U.S. politics, national security, immigration, social conservatism, Washington DC affairs, foreign policy


## 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.

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-04-07. 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: 7 (4 themes).

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