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Inside Sputnik, a Viral Internet Machine Funded by Russia | NBC Left Field
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October 27, 2017
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7:46Now PlayingWhat’s it like to work at a Russian government-funded news outlet in Washington, D.C.? NBC Left Field spent a day at Sputnik News’s Washington, D.C. bureau with Lee Stranahan: a former Senior Investigative Correspondent at Breitbart — who now works at Sputnik’s new radio station, 105.5 FM. We speak to Sputnik’s US bureau chief, who tells us that Sputnik is trying to change the reputation of Russian media in America.
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