Fast Company media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Fast Company as leaning left. We have seen it on 77 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Fast Company biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Fast Company as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Fast Company left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Fast Company as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Fast Company reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Fast Company are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Fast Company has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Fast Company’s own report linked underneath.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa has defeated Republican incumbent Greg Abbott in the 2026 Texas governor's race. Her victory makes her the first Democrat elected governor in more than 30 years and the third woman to hold the office.
Fast Company reported it asTexas wanted to power America's AI boom. Its new governor could change everything (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Supermarkets in at least nine European countries experienced cyberattacks on their refrigeration systems on November 2. The European Union warned the incidents were a deliberate attempt to disrupt the food supply chain, leading to spoiled food and investigations.
Fast Company reported it asHackers may have found a surprising new target: Your grocery store’s frozen food aisle (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Ryanair is considering significant cost-cutting measures, such as temporarily freezing employee salaries, as rising fuel prices and the impact of the "Iran war" increase operational costs. The airline estimates its oil costs could rise by €2 billion next year.
Fast Company reported it asAirfare prices are soaring, and one airline says the worst may be yet to come (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Patrick Stewart, the British actor famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men', has died at the age of 86. His death was announced by his family.
Fast Company reported it asPatrick Stewart was thinking about AI ethics years before ChatGPT launched (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Polymarket users reported losing funds after a security breach involving malicious code on the company's website. The platform halted trading, identified a compromised third-party provider, and has promised to refund all affected users.
Fast Company reported it asPolymarket trading paused over a security issue involving this third-party UK provider (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security issue on its platform. Stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle have frozen billions of dollars in assets connected to the incident, while Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao stated user funds remain safe.
Fast Company reported it asBinance hack: Bitcoin and other tokens fall as the crypto world is rocked by a historic attack (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
A US congressional investigation found the government's response to cyberscams is fragmented, with agencies lacking a unified accounting of seized money and victim returns. Americans reported nearly $18 billion in losses last year.
Fast Company reported it asAmericans are being cyberscammed out of billions and few are getting their money back (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
The NBA has announced agreements with prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket, alongside a Memorandum of Understanding with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. These deals aim to enhance transparency and prevent abuses in NBA-related betting markets.
Fast Company reported it asNBA partners with Kalshi and Polymarket as official prediction markets (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Instagram has begun a US‑only test of a new feature called ‘Features’ that lets creators upload horizontal videos up to 90 minutes. The trial, aimed at podcasters and other long‑form creators, connects longer videos to short‑form Reels and comes as the platform seeks to challenge YouTube’s revenue‑share model.
Fast Company reported it asWhy Instagram is about to look a lot more like YouTube (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Asian stock markets saw a significant rise following Anthropic's initial public offering filing, which disclosed strong revenue growth alongside substantial losses. Meta Platforms' large equity fundraising also contributed to the positive sentiment.
Fast Company reported it asAnthropic IPO: AI giant is preparing for blockbuster stock listing. Here’s what the SEC filing reveals (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Rising mortgage rates and inflation have left US home sellers lowering prices and offering buyer concessions. Median listing prices fell 1.2% to $419,250 in September, while 21% of homes saw initial price cuts. Liz Suder sold her Texas home for $650,000 after multiple reductions; Rick Ganga in Washington still has no offers on his $825,000 listing.
Fast Company reported it asHow U.S. home sellers are helping buyers make a deal in a stagnant housing market (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
The U.S. Treasury Department has proposed a new rule to restrict American investments in sensitive technologies like artificial intelligence and supercomputing in countries including China, Russia, and North Korea. The move aims to prevent adversaries from using U.S. capital to enhance their military power.
Fast Company reported it asThe U.S. Treasury wants expanded restrictions on high-tech investments to these ‘countries of concern’ (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign has confirmed it produced an ad featuring his opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother. The ad includes criticism of Acton and insinuations about her mental health. The campaign plans a significant advertising spend around the video, which has drawn criticism.
Fast Company reported it as‘I’ve never seen anything uglier’: Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad featuring candidate’s mother goes too far, says social media (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Childcare costs, averaging $13,000 annually in 2025, are a major financial strain for US parents, influencing their voting choices in the upcoming midterm elections. Candidates are addressing the issue with differing approaches.
Fast Company reported it asThis critical household budget item could shape how Americans vote in the upcoming midterms (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
An artificial intelligence model can predict cancer patients' survival risk and biological aging from a single facial photograph. The research, conducted by Mass General Brigham, used a model trained on over 40 million facial images.
Fast Company reported it asA photo of your face could reveal how likely you are to survive cancer, a new study finds (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
President Donald Trump announced plans to close the East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, D.C. for 15 months of renovations, beginning November 15. The announcement comes despite a federal judge's order to halt redevelopment plans.
Fast Company reported it asTrump posts plans to close this ‘community jewel’ in Washington, D.C. (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Eight US states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that its AI chatbot ChatGPT has caused harm to children. The suits claim the technology has instructed minors on how to harm themselves or others, and accuse the company of violating consumer protection laws.
Fast Company reported it asStates sue OpenAI over allegedly hurting children and deceiving adults (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, has stated she is a lawyer. An investigation found no record of her being licensed to practice law in any US state or Washington D.C. She told reporters she passed the bar exam when she moved to China.
Fast Company reported it asNew White House press secretary Katie Zacharia defends her legal background and first briefing amid criticism (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
Mark Zuckerberg appeared on John Collison's Cheeky Pint podcast and was filmed drinking Guinness. His reaction, which involved a grimace and swishing the liquid, has gone viral on social media.
Fast Company reported it asWhy we couldn’t look away from Zuck’s Guinness wince (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
An international study projects that annual new dementia diagnoses will more than double by 2050, reaching an estimated 24.7 million cases. The research also found that women and individuals in low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected.
Fast Company reported it asDementia cases are expected to more than double by 2050. A new study reveals who’s most at risk (opens Fast Company in a new tab)
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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Mansueto Ventures LLCBillionairedirect owner
- Joe MansuetoBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- fastcompany.com
- Seen publishing on
- fastcompany.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
- 77
- Reports listed
- 77
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
77 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 13 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Fast Company ran the story anyway.
Across the 77 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Fast Company: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
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Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Fast Company, 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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