CNBC Admits It Ran Oil-Happy Column With a Glaring Conflict of Interest
Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber speaks at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum last year.Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi (AP)The leader of one of Washington, DC’s most influential foreign policy think tanks got caught shilling for an oil CEO on a major news site—by a right-wing publication that runs hit pieces on renewable energy. This sounds like a Mad Lib, but it’s 2023, and anything is possible!On Saturday, CNBC posted an op-ed from Fred Kempe, the CEO of the Atlantic Council and a regular contributor to the site. Kempe has several…