Outlet track record
Sputnik
Russian state
Sputnik is a Russian state-owned international news agency and radio service run by Rossiya Segodnya and funded by the Russian federal budget. Its coverage promotes the Kremlin's views and goals. One source summarized here describes its U.S. political coverage as leaning pro-Trump and conservative, but its stance on the second Trump administration shifts with Russian foreign-policy interests, so it is better described as mixed than as consistently supportive.
Owned byOwned by the Russian government through Rossiya Segodnya, a federal state unitary enterprise (the International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya). Dmitry Kiselyov is its Director General and Margarita Simonyan is its Editor-in-Chief. Sputnik is the agency's international news brand.
LeaningRussian state
On the administrationmixed
7average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun