Former Sputnik employee reveals how the Kremlin-backed site became part of the right-wing media eco
system
RawStory
Noor Al-Sibai
12 Sep 2017 at 19:27 ET
In an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Andrew Feinberg, a former White House correspondent for the Russian-backed Sputnik News service, explained how his former employer infiltrated American right-wing news.
“Many of the most popular articles about things like Wikileaks and Pizzagate and other conspiracy theories were prominently featured on the Sputnik website,” Feinberg told Melber.
Those stories were then picked up by right-wing outlets like Infowars, Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit, he continued.
“Sputnik functions as part of this right-wing media ecosystem,” Feinberg said. “There’s a big difference between these sites run by Americans [that] employ Americans exercising their right to freedom of speech and a news site funded by a foreign government with the express purpose of not reporting the news but influencing opinion.”
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