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The Association for International Broadcasting has called on the Trump administration to return the Federal Fund to the Voice of America and other democratic media, warning that it will encourage the global authoritarian government.
The UK -based Broadcasting Trade Association says the decision to “close funds” effectively and to establish several hundred employees on administrative leave is an important push for media independence and will damage America’s global credibility.
“At a time when the world is looking forward to being a global player in the United States for peace and independence, funding is one of the main instruments to include this goal – it seems wrong direction,” said Simon Spanswik, chief executive of the Association, “said Simon Spansweek, chief executive of the association.
Voice of America was established during World War II to fight against the Nazi propaganda and now weekends have reached 360MN people in 48 languages.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia, which is also influenced by Trump’s funds, broadcast independent news to the audience of Eastern Europe, Russia, China and North Korea, which is subject to censorship and state-controlled media.
A statement from the White House on Saturday said that Trump’s executive order would confirm that the United States was “no longer for taxpayers to campaign”.
It includes quotes from Republican politicians and Rightwing Media Groups, describing the Voice of America as “extremely biased” and “radical”. It has been accused of posting “anti -Trump comments” on some of Broadcaster journalists on their professional social media accounts.
Voice of America Director Mike Abramovits said in a social media post that he learned on Saturday morning that the broadcasting of the broadcasts had been placed on the administrative leave of 5 journalists, producers and assistance staff.
“If the agency survives in a form, the action taken by the administration today will seriously damage the voice of the power to encourage a world that is safe and free from America and fails to protect US interest in doing so,” he said.
America and other federal financed broadcasts such as Radio Free Europe and Asia and Radio and Television Marti, which broadcast the Spanish -language news to Cuba, the latest in a string of savage cutback on Trump administration’s official services.
Thousands of federal employees have been influenced by cutbacks so far, which is led by Elon Mask, who is Leadership The so -called Government Skill Department (DOGE) within the administration of Trump.
Tesla’s Chief Executive, who donated several million dollars for Trump’s re -election campaign, had earlier called for the closure of America and Radio Free Europe, which he said that no one else had heard.
On February 9, a tweet said, “It is only radical crazie people talking to themselves while torching $ 1 billion/year of US taxpayers.”
The steps against the Voice of America and other broadcasting followed the controversy that arose by the musk on Friday when he shared a post on the Social Media Platform X that falsely claimed “Stalin, Mao and Hitler did not kill millions of people. Their government sector employees did”.
