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DroneXL
U.S. drone-industry trade press (no general political leaning)
DroneXL is a niche trade-news site covering the commercial and consumer drone industry, founded in 2020 by Haye Kesteloo and funded through ads and affiliate links rather than a corporate parent. It is not organized around U.S. partisan politics; its Trump-administration coverage tracks drone-specific policy (DJI/Chinese-drone restrictions, FAA rulemaking, domestic manufacturing incentives) and mixes straightforward reporting of administration announcements with occasional skeptical fact-checks of official claims.
Owned byIndependently owned and operated; founded and run by Editor-in-Chief Haye Kesteloo, a Netherlands-born drone journalist previously with DroneDJ (9to5-network sites)
LeaningU.S. drone-industry trade press (no general political leaning)
On the administrationmostly neutral
3.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun