On Thursday, the Trump administration ended contracts of nearly 600 Entrepreneurs from Voice of America, the international information network funded by the United States known for providing independent journalism in more than 40 languages in countries without free press.
The movement challenges a court order Published in March which interrupted the administration’s attempt to dismantle the parental agency of the network, the American agency for the world media. He also flies in front of a preliminary injunction of the American District Court of the Columbia District Protect the agency closure.
In a statement In the media, USAGM’s main advisor Kari Lake said: “We will continue to reduce USAGM’s bloating and make an archaic dinosaur something worthy of being funded by workers.” The first Local television anchor, conspiracy theorist and double electoral loser of Arizona Added: “Fuck yourself. There is more to come.”
Michael Abramowitz, the director of VOA, tell Staff he had “broken heart” and qualified “inexplicable” dismissals. He observed that most of the licensed entrepreneurs were journalists, many of whom come from countries where independent journalism is persecuted. Many are now faced with a possible deportation in June, because their status of American immigration depended on their work with VOA, according to the New York Times.
VOA was actually closed Since March 15When Trump has signed a decree indicating that “taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda”. One of the first acts of Lake as a main advisor was to Free a screedCrusted with absurd complaints, including “$ 100 out of millions” were spent for “false press companies”, and alleging that the agency had been infiltrated by “spies and terrorist sympathizers and / or supporters”.
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Since then Announced an agreement With the tight-wing plot of the right-wing media, a new America News to spit its mag and its-propaganda via VOA. In Florida Smartmatic And Dominion voting systems Both continued Oan for Promote baseless lies Towards the 2020 election.
At the same time that Lake has concluded offers to connect our international media to the media machine in sharpness, the White House has launched its own website of government “news”The Wire of the White House. The aggregates site The press releases of the Trump administration, the broadcasting network on the right side, the daily newspaper and the new Fox stories under the guise of official government information.
Just like “One Big Beautiful Bill” by Trump does not concern budgetary responsibility And rationalize the government’s bureaucracy, the actions of its administration in VOA are not intended to eliminate waste and fraud. They are part of a wider GOP effort to transform an agency dedicated to press freedom, it was, ironically, to fight Nazi propaganda during the Second World War, in a propaganda operation populated by right -won ideologists.
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