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U.S. Department of State
U.S. federal executive branch (Trump administration)
The State Department is the executive-branch agency that conducts U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio under President Trump. Its public statements, press briefings, and website content directly represent and defend administration policy rather than independent journalism. As an official government mouthpiece, its output should be read as the administration's own framing of events, not as neutral reporting.
Owned byCabinet-level agency of the U.S. federal government
LeaningU.S. federal executive branch (Trump administration)
On the administrationbroadly supportive
6.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun