Coin Desk media bias and reliability
AllSides and Ad Fontes Media place Coin Desk in the centre. We have seen it on 15 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Coin Desk biased?
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Is Coin Desk left or right?
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Is Coin Desk reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Coin Desk are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Coin Desk has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Coin Desk’s own report linked underneath.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the Iranian cryptocurrency exchange BitBank, alleging it facilitated the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The transfers were reportedly linked to payments for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
Coin Desk reported it asBTC news: Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll booth has been settling in bitcoin since June (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
US prosecutors are seeking to forfeit over $61 million in cryptocurrency allegedly linked to illicit Iranian oil sales. The funds were allegedly laundered through Binance accounts by two Chinese companies and intended to finance Iran's government, military, and the IRGC.
Coin Desk reported it asU.S. DOJ seeks $61 million in what it calls Iran's crypto-laundered black market oil sales (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
U.S. Senate Republicans have released a revised draft of the Clarity Act, a major cryptocurrency bill, incorporating new ethics language that President Donald Trump has agreed to. The bill includes provisions on affiliate trading, consumer protection, and software developer protections. A procedural vote is scheduled for Tuesday.
Coin Desk reported it asTrump agrees to stricter ethics rules to save Clarity Act crypto bill: AP (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
US stock markets closed lower on September 15, 2026, influenced by climbing oil prices and Treasury yields. Concerns about artificial intelligence spending and corporate demand also added to investor apprehension, leading to a broad market downturn.
Coin Desk reported it asCrypto market outperforms as call for slower AI development weighs on tech stocks (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
OpenAI has announced that an internal AI model has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. The company claims approximately 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours. However, mathematicians have expressed skepticism due to the lack of a publicly disclosed proof.
Coin Desk reported it asOpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a $1 million math problem. Now mathematicians are fighting (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
Iran has established a barter-like mechanism to circumvent US sanctions on its oil exports, allowing it to convert oil revenues into credits for purchasing goods from China. This system bypasses international banking transfers and has facilitated the import of various items, including military equipment.
Coin Desk reported it asIran eases currency controls to let traders bring earnings home in crypto: FT (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has warned that artificial intelligence poses an 'existential' risk to humanity. He called for immediate action and 'cast-iron guarantees' to ensure AI safety and security, citing potential disruptions to critical infrastructure and democratic institutions.
Coin Desk reported it asAnthropic researcher quits with a warning on AI that echoes 'The Terminator' script (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
A 27-year-old British researcher, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from Anthropic and the AI industry, citing concerns over the rapid, irresponsible development of self-improving superintelligence. He fears this race poses a significant risk to humanity, with some reports suggesting an existential threat by the end of the decade.
Coin Desk reported it asAnthropic researcher quits with a warning on AI that echoes 'The Terminator' script (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
Jacob Coxon has resigned from AI company Anthropic, warning that the rapid development of artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. His departure and warnings have been reported across several outlets, highlighting concerns about AI safety and the race for superintelligence.
Coin Desk reported it asAnthropic researcher quits with a warning on AI that echoes 'The Terminator' script (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
Jacob Coxon, a researcher formerly with OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned, stating that leading AI developers are acting irresponsibly and "gambling with our lives." His departure has drawn comparisons to the Skynet scenario from the Terminator film.
Coin Desk reported it asAnthropic researcher quits with a warning on AI that echoes 'The Terminator' script (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
An Anthropic researcher has warned of a greater than 10% chance of AI causing human extinction in the next ten years. The warning follows a colleague's resignation over concerns about reckless AI development.
Coin Desk reported it asAnthropic researcher quits with a warning on AI that echoes 'The Terminator' script (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a legal dispute over the regulation of prediction markets. The case could determine whether these platforms are considered sports betting, subject to state laws, or financial derivatives regulated by the federal government.
Coin Desk reported it asPrediction markets inch closer to the Supreme Court: State of Crypto (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a legal dispute over the regulation of prediction markets. The case could determine whether these platforms are considered sports betting, subject to state laws, or financial derivatives regulated by the federal government.
Coin Desk reported it asNew Jersey becomes first state to ask Supreme Court to weigh in on prediction markets (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
A federal appeals court has ruled that Nevada can regulate Kalshi's prediction markets, stating the company's sports event contracts are akin to sports bets and not federally regulated financial swaps. The decision is a win for states seeking to oversee such platforms.
Coin Desk reported it asKalshi takes legal blow in court ruling confirming state powers over prediction markets (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
The US Central Command diverted 53 commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, disabled two, and boarded two others as part of a blockade against Iran. Over 30 ships were allowed passage for humanitarian aid, while the US Treasury targeted digital asset platforms linked to Iranian entities.
Coin Desk reported it asCrypto opens the week in the green as Strait of Hormuz deal murmurs boost bitcoin (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
The U.S. Senate will hold a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on 15 September, following a cloture motion filed by Majority Leader John Thune. The bill would establish the first federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, but requires 60 votes to advance.
Coin Desk reported it asU.S. Senate opens first stage of crypto Clarity Act voting to give bill a chance next month (opens Coin Desk in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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
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High factuality
- Ad Fontes MediahighCheck it
Who owns it
- Bullish GlobalCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- coindesk.com
- Seen publishing on
- coindesk.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 15
- Reports listed
- 16
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
14 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 2 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Coin Desk is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 15 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Coin Desk: its report arrived a median of 19 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 September 2026.
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Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Coin Desk, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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