Stop it. You are being silly. So..... they aren't owned and/or funded by the Russian government?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_(news_agency) Read the WikiLeaks thread under "criticism" - A January 2017 report by The Swedish Institute of International Affairs found that Swedish language version of Sputnik News was one of the main tools by which the Russian government spread false information in Sweden. According to the report, Sputnik News focused on highly negative stories about NATO and the EU, in particular.
Foreign Policy magazine has described Sputnik as a slick and internet-savvy outlet of
Kremlin propaganda, which "remixes President
Vladimir Putin's brand of revanchist nationalism for an international audience... beating a predictable drum of anti-Western rhetoric."
[5] Such views were also voiced by the
Washington DC-based
think tank[29] Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), which argues that Sputnik spreads biased information. In the opinion of CEPA, Sputnik invites only a select group of commenting politicians, especially those known for their pro-Russian views.
[6] According to Kevin Rothrock, Russia editor for
Global Voices, Sputnik "acts as a spoiler to try and disrupt or blur information unfriendly to Russia, such as Russian troops' alleged
involvement in the war in Ukraine".
[30] Historical comparisons have been made to
Pravda, once the official newspaper of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in particular Sputnik's alleged apologia for
Joseph Stalin and
denial of the 1932–1933 famine in Ukraine known as the
Holodomor.
[31] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) Read the facts:
The New Republic writer
James Kirchick accused the network of "often virulent
anti-Americanism, worshipful portrayal of Russian leaders."
[217] Edward Lucas wrote in
The Economist (quoted in
Al Jazeera English) that the core of RT was "anti-Westernism."
[190] Julia Ioffe wrote "Often, it seemed that Russia Today was just a way to stick it to the U.S. from behind the façade of legitimate newsgathering."
[13] Shaun Walker wrote in
The Independent that RT "has made a name for itself as a strident critic of US policy."
[218] Allesandra Stanley wrote in
The New York Times that RT is "like the Voice of America, only with more money and a zesty anti-American slant."
[62] David Weigel writes that RT goes further than merely creating distrust of the United States government, to saying, in effect: "You can trust the Russians more than you can trust those $#@!s."
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