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{{Infobox source reliability
| type = website
| shortcut = WP:SPUTNIK
| status = d
| last = 2022
| domain1 = sputniknews.com
| rfc = [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 296#RfC: Sputnik|Rfc]]
| rfcdate = 2020
}}
{{WP:RSPIntro|Sputnik (news agency)}}
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== Summary ==
There is consensus that Sputnik is an unreliable source that publishes false or fabricated information, and should be [[WP:DEPS|deprecated]] as in the [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 220#Daily Mail RfC|2017 RfC]] of the ''[[Daily Mail]]''. Sputnik is considered a Russian propaganda outlet that engages in bias and disinformation,[{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.html|title=A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories|last=MacFarquhar|first=Neil|date=August 28, 2016|work=The New York Times|accessdate=29 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221063555/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.html|archive-date=February 21, 2017|url-status=live|url-access=limited|df=mdy-all}}] a significant proportion of editors endorse that view, with some editors considering it less reliable than ''{{pslink|Breitbart News}}''. ''See also: {{pslink|RIA Novosti}}, whose international edition was replaced by Sputnik.''
== Excerpt ==
{{hatnote|Excerpt from the lead of [[Sputnik (news agency)]]:}}
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== Discussions ==
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=== Links ===
==== RSN ====
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 205#Sputnik News]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 212#Source being used in the S-400 article]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 246#Sputnik (news agency)]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 337#Sputnik-Abkhazia]]
* [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 367#Sputnik, kind of]]
=== Recency ===
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=== Rfcs ===
# 2020 [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 296#RfC: Sputnik|Rfc]]
==Notes==
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==References==
== Original table row for comparison ==
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|- class="s-d" id="Sputnik"
| [[Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]] {{WP:RSPSHORTCUT|WP:SPUTNIK}}
| {{WP:RSPSTATUS|d}}
| {{rsnl|296|RfC: Sputnik|2020|rfc=y}}
| {{WP:RSPLAST|2022}}
| There is consensus that Sputnik is an unreliable source that publishes false or fabricated information, and should be [[WP:DEPS|deprecated]] as in the [[WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 220#Daily Mail RfC|2017 RfC]] of the ''[[Daily Mail]]''. Sputnik is considered a Russian propaganda outlet that engages in bias and disinformation,[{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.html|title=A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories|last=MacFarquhar|first=Neil|date=August 28, 2016|work=The New York Times|accessdate=29 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221063555/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.html|archive-date=February 21, 2017|url-status=live|url-access=limited|df=mdy-all}}] a significant proportion of editors endorse that view, with some editors considering it less reliable than ''{{pslink|Breitbart News}}''. ''See also: {{pslink|RIA Novosti}}, whose international edition was replaced by Sputnik.''
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