English
Every rumour contains a grain of truth.
According to SpanishDict and Wiktionary, sesgo means “bias”. How about grano, ápice, or pizca? 
I might be wrong but I reckon that sesgo is meant literally here: the cognitive bias is indeed to consider that the rumor contains some truth. Donde hay humo, hay fuego.
A “bias of truth” sounds pretty strange to me; a word for word translation really doesn’t work in this case. Thankfully, for my wee brain, I notice that DeepL translates the Spanish expression as a grain of truth or a ring of truth. I like the latter translation most as it also cannot be translated word for word back into Spanish and still make sense.
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