A prominent publication in the Ivy League is concerned that the recent disturbances involve USAID Agency (USAID) It can have great consequences for independent journalists around the world.
Reporting the “cellular influence” of the government's efficiency (DOGE), the president of Elon Musk and “the disciples” within the federal government, suggested that the press in Colombia (CJR) suggest that inflation in the United States Agency for International Development “does not seem intelligent” in particular “in light of foreign policy goals To manage Trump.
Sunday, musk He claimed x“The US Agency for International Development is paying media organizations to publish its propaganda.” Meanwhile, CJR noticed that critics on the left described efforts to “promote democracy” by financing the media as an example of “ineffective liberalism at best” and “malicious smoke screen in the worst case.”
The magazine admitted Although the United States Development Agency for the International Press Development around the world should be scrutinized, dollars in support of independent media can have a significant impact on correspondents covering geopolitical interests.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump and the American Agency for International Development. (Getty Images)
“China and Russia were not shy of exporting propaganda around the world and seeking to participate in choosing journalists on the ground to reinforce them. John John wrote all llsop in favor of CJR.
As indicated by CJR, Journalists Without Borders (RSF) She said that Al -Wakbat aid (the American Agency for International Development will be freezing in a specialized placement in the value of 268 million and the financing of the financing “and the independent media and the flow of information for information” in 2025
The US International Development Agency has previously informed Supports their financing More than 6000 journalists, about 700 news rooms and about 3000 civil society groups in 30 strange countries.
RSF said that the full effect of freezing is difficult to define as beneficiaries of financing, fear of risk of future aid or political revenge if they speak.
The non-profit organization also claims that the problems of the United States Agency for International Development may have severe consequences for Ukrainian journalists-where 90 percent of news organizations depend on funding for the US International Development Agency for Operations.
Employees and supporters of protest meet outside the U.S. Agency for International Development (US Agency for Development) on February 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Andach/Getty Erch)
Editor -in -chief Kyiv Independent, Olga Rudnko, He said last week The freezing “caused the damage to the Independent Ukrainian press on an equal footing with the Covid-19 and the beginning of the full war in Russia.”
CJR also referred to the consequences of journalists from Belarus, Cambodia, Iran, Moldova and Myanmar, including reports, “The freezing (one) has decreased to uncertainty exactly four years of a brutal coup that forced independent media in Myanmar to negation or underground.”
The US Agency for International Development for Independent Journalists has been widely reported in the past few years. Agency profile Spread on the center “The support of independent media was part of the efforts of democratic aid and governance at the United States Agency for International Development since the 1980s” and that the United States government is currently “the largest general donor to develop independent media in the world.”
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“He and US President Donald Trump will close the Foreign Assistance Agency. (Getty Images)
In the end, many of the work supported by the United States Agency for International Development and other donors will simply stop without it, in the countries where commercial revenues flowed to the press WarOr authoritarianism, or simple market forces, “indicated the article of the press review in Colombia.
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