Sputnik Editor Pushes Back Against House Democrats' Call for FCC Probe of Election Propaganda Claims
A call by top House Commerce Committee Democrats for the FCC to investigate whether Russian government-owned radio service Sputnik broadcasts propaganda over U.S. airwaves aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election and other contests is “the newest intellectual height reached…
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by the US establishment,” said Sputnik parent Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan in a statement. House Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Michael Doyle, D-Pa., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., sought the FCC probe Monday, citing concerns about potential violations of the Communications Act's public interest standard. Sputnik began terrestrial broadcasts in July in the Washington, D.C., area using 105.5 FM, which it leased from owner Reston Translator (see 1709180054).