Is CNBC biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place CNBC as leaning left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- VersantMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and CNBC ran the story anyway.
Measured 4 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 4 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- CNBCLeans leftVery high factualitySaudi Aramco profits soar in second quarter as Iran war squeezes oil (opens CNBC in a new tab)
Englewood Cliffs, Bergen County, New Jersey, United StatesOwner: Versant
Our report: Aramco Q2 2026 profit rises 42% on higher oil prices despite Hormuz disruptions
- CNBCLeans leftVery high factualityOil ticks up after selloff as talks to end US-Iran war remain uncertain (opens CNBC in a new tab)
Englewood Cliffs, Bergen County, New Jersey, United StatesOwner: VersantCarried from Channel News Asia
Our report: Ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.